I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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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Death is just infinity closing in.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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