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Jorge Luis Borges quotes: The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher. The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me. From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: As the end approaches, there are no longer any images from memory - there are only words. As the end approaches, there are no longer any images from memory - there are only words.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real. We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day. It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: We are our memory,we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes,that pile of broken mirrors. We are our memory,
we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes,
that pile of broken mirrors.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA. It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic. Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: I, that used to figure ParadiseIn the guise of a library I, that used to figure Paradise
In the guise of a library
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes. I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: If you're a writer you're bound to write something fine, at least now and then, off and on. If you're a writer you're bound to write something fine, at least now and then, off and on.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: All writing is dreaming All writing is dreaming
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men. We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists. The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential. Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: The present is the instant in which the future crumbles into the past. The present is the instant in which the future crumbles into the past.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others. In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: Death is just infinity closing in. Death is just infinity closing in.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: The indecipherable dust, once Shakespeare. The indecipherable dust, once Shakespeare.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: God moves the player, he in turn the piece.But what god beyond God begins the roundOf dust and time and sleep and agonies? God moves the player, he in turn the piece.
But what god beyond God begins the round
Of dust and time and sleep and agonies?
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death. It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects. A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: I have always come to life after coming to books. I have always come to life after coming to books.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: Image is sorcery. Image is sorcery.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: 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. 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.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read. Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: I am not sure of anything, I know nothing ... can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death? I am not sure of anything, I know nothing ... can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death?
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: To bless thine enemy is a good way to satisfy thy vanity. To bless thine enemy is a good way to satisfy thy vanity.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: That one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox. That one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: Besides, rereading, not reading, is what counts. Besides, rereading, not reading, is what counts.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger. Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment - the moment when a man knows forever more who he is. Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment - the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: I think the first reading of a poem is a true one, and after that we delude ourselves into the belief that the sensation, the impression, is repeated. I think the first reading of a poem is a true one, and after that we delude ourselves into the belief that the sensation, the impression, is repeated.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: It only takes two facing mirrors to build a labyrinth. It only takes two facing mirrors to build a labyrinth.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: Sometimes a few birds, a horse, have saved the ruins of an amphitheater. Sometimes a few birds, a horse, have saved the ruins of an amphitheater.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: 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. 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.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: What will my redeemer be like? I wonder. Will he be a bull or a man? Will he perhaps be a bull with the face of a man? Or will What will my redeemer be like? I wonder. Will he be a bull or a man? Will he perhaps be a bull with the face of a man? Or will he be like me?
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them. My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: A necessary monster. A necessary monster.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: Life and death have been lacking in my life. Life and death have been lacking in my life.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: Like all the men of Babylon, I have been proconsul; like all, I have been a slave. I have known omnipotence, ignominy, imprisonment. Like all the men of Babylon, I have been proconsul; like all, I have been a slave. I have known omnipotence, ignominy, imprisonment.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb. The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: The time for your labor has been granted. The time for your labor has been granted.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety. He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: Centuries and centuries of idealism have not failed to influence reality Centuries and centuries of idealism have not failed to influence reality
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: Everything touches everything. Everything touches everything.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: Life itself is a quotation. Life itself is a quotation.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: To think, analyze and invent are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence. To think, analyze and invent are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: Reading ... is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. Reading ... is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration. The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library, If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library,
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry. No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia. I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not. Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love. Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream. The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: How strangeit is. For perfect things in poetry do not seem strange;they seem inevitable. And so we hardly thank thewriter for his pains. How strange
it is. For perfect things in poetry do not seem strange;
they seem inevitable. And so we hardly thank the
writer for his pains.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: What you really value is what you miss, not what you have. What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: The fact is that each writer creates his own precursors. The fact is that each writer creates his own precursors.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges. My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: I know what the Greeks do not know, incertitude. I know what the Greeks do not know, incertitude.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: The fact is that every author creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future. The fact is that every author creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: The central problem of novel-writing is causality. The central problem of novel-writing is causality.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: My memory, sir, is like a garbage disposal. My memory, sir, is like a garbage disposal.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him. Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: Democracy is an abuse of statistics. Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done. I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety. Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: I think most people are more important than their opinions. I think most people are more important than their opinions.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: The image of the Lord has been replaced by a mirror. The image of the Lord has been replaced by a mirror.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius. Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose. I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: There are people who barely feel poetry, and they are generally dedicated to teaching it. There are people who barely feel poetry, and they are generally dedicated to teaching it.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: All language is a set of symbols whose use among its speakers assumes a share past All language is a set of symbols whose use among its speakers assumes a share past
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: I have been Homer; shortly, I shall be No One, like Ulysses; shortly, I shall be all men; I shall be dead. I have been Homer; shortly, I shall be No One, like Ulysses; shortly, I shall be all men; I shall be dead.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits. Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: Time is the substance of which we are made Time is the substance of which we are made
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks. I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: Day and night, their fail and crippled ships defy the tempest. Day and night, their fail and crippled ships defy the tempest.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: There is a labyrinth which is a straight line. There is a labyrinth which is a straight line.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us. God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is. Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: One is allowed to change the past: the present is so stubborn. One is allowed to change the past: the present is so stubborn.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: Let heaven exist, though my place be in hell. Let heaven exist, though my place be in hell.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others.I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite. There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others.
I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels. Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: In my soul the afternoon grows wider and I reflect. In my soul the afternoon grows wider and I reflect.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: I ... confirm the fact - with a certain bittersweet melancholy - that everything in the world brings me back to a quotation or a book. I ... confirm the fact - with a certain bittersweet melancholy - that everything in the world brings me back to a quotation or a book.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: Novels include padding; I think padding may be an essential part of the novel, for all I know. Novels include padding; I think padding may be an essential part of the novel, for all I know.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: That is what always happens: we never know whether we are victors or whether we are defeated. That is what always happens: we never know whether we are victors or whether we are defeated.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library. I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: My taste runs to hourglasses, maps, seventeenth-century typefaces, etymologies, the taste of coffee, and the prose of Robert Louis Stevenson. My taste runs to hourglasses, maps, seventeenth-century typefaces, etymologies, the taste of coffee, and the prose of Robert Louis Stevenson.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: I owe my first inkling of the problem of infinity to a large biscuit tin that was a source of vertiginous mystery during my childhood. I owe my first inkling of the problem of infinity to a large biscuit tin that was a source of vertiginous mystery during my childhood.
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives? How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: We are like the wizard who weaves a labyrinth and is forced to wander through it till the end of his days We are like the wizard who weaves a labyrinth and is forced to wander through it till the end of his days
Jorge Luis Borges quotes: Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality. Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.

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