I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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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 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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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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