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Jorge Luis Borges

To think, analyze and invent, ...

To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, 'are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence. To glorify the occasional fulfillment of this function, to treasure ancient thoughts of others, to remember with incredulous amazement that the doctor universal is thought, is to confess our languor or barbarism. Every man should be capable of all ideas, and I believe that in the future he will be.' (Jorge Luis Borges, 'Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote, 1939)

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Jorge Luis Borges

The poverty of yesterday was l...

The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. Fortunes were smaller then as well.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes
Jorge Luis Borges

Time is a fire that consumes m...

Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes
Jorge Luis Borges

Whoever would undertake some a...

Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

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Jorge Luis Borges

Music, feelings of happiness, ...

Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told us something that we should not have missed, or they are about to tell us something; this imminence of a revelation that is not produced is, perhaps, 'the aesthetic event'.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes
Jorge Luis Borges

Captivated by its discipline, ...

Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels.

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Jorge Luis Borges

At the beginning of their care...

At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress their readers with their large vocabularies. By the excesses of their language, these young men and women try to hide their sense of inexperience. With maturity the writer becomes more secure in his ideas. He finds his real tone and develops a simple and effective style.

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Jorge Luis Borges

A writer - and, I believe, gen...

A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

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Jorge Luis Borges

I can give you my loneliness, ...

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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Jorge Luis Borges

We have shared out, like thiev...

We have shared out, like thieves, the amazing treasures of days and nights.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes
Jorge Luis Borges

Then he reflected that reality...

Then he reflected that reality does not usually coincide with our anticipation of it; with a logic of his own he inferred that to forsee a circumstantial detail is to prevent its happening. Trusting in this weak magic, he invented, so that they would not happen, the most gruesome details.

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Jorge Luis Borges

A writer should have another l...

A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated.

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Jorge Luis Borges

A writer needs loneliness, and...

A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer - to be living a kind of double life.

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Jorge Luis Borges

He constructed a vast labyrint...

He constructed a vast labyrinthine of periods, made impassable by the piling-up of clauses upon clauses-clauses in which oversight and bad grammar seemed manifestations of disdain.

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Jorge Luis Borges

Heaven and hell seem out of pr...

Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.

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Jorge Luis Borges

Israelites, Christians and Mus...

Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.

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Jorge Luis Borges

I have tried (I am not sure ho...

I have tried (I am not sure how successfully) to write plain tales. I dare not say they are simple; there is not a simple page, a simple word, on earth -- for all pages, all words, predicate the universe, whose most notorious attribute is its complexity.

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Jorge Luis Borges

I believe that in time we will...

I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.

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Jorge Luis Borges

Truly fine poetry must be read...

Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we can read it silently, it is not a valid poem: a poem demands pronunciation. Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song.

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Jorge Luis Borges

When you reach my age, you rea...

When you reach my age, you realize you couldn't have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.

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