He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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