I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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.
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The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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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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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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