A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
JORGE LUIS BORGESEverything touches everything.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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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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Everything touches everything.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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