Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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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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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Everything touches everything.
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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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