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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.

Jorge Luis Borges

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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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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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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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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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