A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
JORGE LUIS BORGESNo one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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The 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.
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When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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