My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhen I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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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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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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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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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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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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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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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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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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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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A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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