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Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

On those remote pages [of 'a c...

On those remote pages [of 'a certain Chinese encyclopedia'] it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f ) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, (h) those that are included in this classification, (i) those that tremble as if they were mad, (j) innumerable ones, (k) those drawn with a very fine camel's hair brush, (l) others, (m) those that have just broken a flower vase, (n) those that resemble flies from a

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

I...have always known that my ...

I...have always known that my destiny was, above all, a literary destiny Ђ' that bad things and some good things would happen to me, but that, in the long run, all of it would be converted into words. Particularly the bad things, since happiness does not need to be transformed: happiness is its own end.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

A writer, or any man, must bel...

A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is even stronger in the case of the artist. Everything that happens, including humiliations, embarrassments, misfortunes, all has been given like clay, like material for one's art. One must accept it.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

You can't measure time by days...

You can't measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

For me, beauty is a physical s...

For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don't.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

Imprecision is tolerable and v...

Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

In the course of a life devote...

In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and theories are nothing more than stimuli and that the final work usually ignores or even contradicts them.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

The exercise of letters is som...

The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to contruct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the otherslike a Platonic archetype, an object whose virtues are not diminished by the passage of time.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

Many of the characters are foo...

Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

Then I reflect that all things...

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.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

Your unforgivable sins do not ...

Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

Personally, I am a hedonistic ...

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

Time is the tiger that devours...

Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

In vain have oceans been squan...

In vain have oceans been squandered on you, in vain the sun, wonderfully seen through Whitman's eyes. You have used up the years and they have used up you, and still, and still, you have not written the poem.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

We did meet forty years ago. A...

We did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I don't think anything can be done in Spanish, do you?' Neruda agreed, but we decided it was too late for us to write our verse in English. We'd have to make the best of a second-rate literature.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

Being with you and not being w...

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

Poetry springs from something ...

Poetry springs from something deeper; it's beyond intelligence.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

In truth, the Library includes...

In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

Censorship is the mother of me...

Censorship is the mother of metaphor.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

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