A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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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When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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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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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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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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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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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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I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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