A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
JORGE LUIS BORGESNo one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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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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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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