The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
JORGE LUIS BORGESA book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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No 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.
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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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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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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