I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Everything touches everything.
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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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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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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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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
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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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