Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThere is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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