My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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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He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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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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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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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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We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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