Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
JORGE LUIS BORGESA 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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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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A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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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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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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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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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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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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