What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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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Reality favors symmetry.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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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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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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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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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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