I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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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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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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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 earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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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 worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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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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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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