Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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 do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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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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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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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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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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Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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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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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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