I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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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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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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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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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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