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A book is more than a verbal ...

A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

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

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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Why do you seem so annoyed at...

Why do you seem so annoyed at what I'm saying?" "Because we're too much like each other. I loathe your face, which is a caricature of mine, I loathe your voice, which is a mockery of mine, I loathe your pathetic syntax, which is my own.

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This felicitous supposition d...

This felicitous supposition declared that there is only one Individual, and that this indivisible Individual is every one of the separate beings in the universe, and that these beings are the instruments and masks of divinity itself.

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His life, measured in space a...

His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

It only takes two facing mirr...

It only takes two facing mirrors to build a labyrinth.

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To bless thine enemy is a goo...

To bless thine enemy is a good way to satisfy thy vanity.

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Had I to give advice to write...

Had I to give advice to writers (and I do not think they need it, because everyone has to find out things for himself), I would tell them simply this; I would ask them to tamper as little as they can with their own work. I do not think tinkering does any good. The moment comes when one has found out what one can do - when one has found one's natural voice, one's rhythm. Then I do not think that slight emendations should prove useful.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

In vain have oceans been squa...

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.

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In the critic's vocabulary, t...

In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future." -- Essay: "Kafka and his Precursors

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We are our memory, we are tha...

We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

I am almost sure to be blotte...

I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?

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In our dreams (writes Colerid...

In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.

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Thus my life is a flight and ...

Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.

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

I...have always known that my destiny was, above all, a literary destiny — 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.

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Your unforgivable sins do not...

Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.

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When one confesses to an act,...

When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.

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It is clear that there is no ...

It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.

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To say good-bye is to deny se...

To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we'll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.

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He thought that the rose was ...

He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.

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