Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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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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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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