The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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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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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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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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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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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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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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