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We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes. — Jorge Luis Borges

I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else. — Jorge Luis Borges

After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want! — Jacques Pepin

The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal. — Michel Foucault

I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love. — Jorge Luis Borges

I care about all the characters I play, and I get quite defensive about them. — Ben Chaplin

Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not. — Michael Flanders

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read. — Jorge Luis Borges

For common minds have an ugly ability to perceive in the deepest and richest saying nothing but their own everyday opinion. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Besides, rereading, not reading, is what counts. — Jorge Luis Borges

But if a book is tedious to you, don't read it; that book was not written for you. Reading should be a form of happiness, — Jorge Luis Borges

Reading ... is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. — Jorge Luis Borges

What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master. — Anthony De Mello

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