I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI have always come to life after coming to books.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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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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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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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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Each thing implies the universe.
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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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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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