Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
JORGE LUIS BORGESI 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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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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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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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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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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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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