Every man should be capable of all ideas.
JORGE LUIS BORGESEach thing implies the universe.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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No 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.
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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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Everything touches everything.
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Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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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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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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