The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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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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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Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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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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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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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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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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