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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
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
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