A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
JORGE LUIS BORGESDo 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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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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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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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.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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