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I'm not interested in the fac...

I'm not interested in the fact that a writer may label himself as being intellectual or anti-intellectual. l'm really interested in the stuff he's turning out.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

Imprecision is tolerable and ...

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

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

You don't have to try to be c...

You don't have to try to be contemporary. You are already contemporary. What one has in mythology is being evolved all the time. Personally, I think I can do with Greek and Old Norse mythology. For example, I don't think I stand in need of planes or of railways or of cars.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

It may be that universal hist...

It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

In the course of a life devot...

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 so...

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

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

I don't think there's any ess...

I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

I try to avoid purple patches...

I try to avoid purple patches, fine writing, all that kind of thing... because I think they're a mistake. And then sometimes it comes through and sometimes it doesn't, but that's not up to me. It's up to chance.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

Canada is so far away it hard...

Canada is so far away it hardly exists.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

There is no exercise of the i...

There is no exercise of the intellect which is not, in the final analysis, useless. A philosophical doctrine begins as a plausible description of the universe; with the passage of the years it becomes a mere chapter if not a paragraph or a name in the history of philosophy.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

I don't think esthetic school...

I don't think esthetic schools are important. What is important is the use that is made of them, or whatever the individual writer does.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

I can’t talk about my books. ...

I can’t talk about my books. I have written them and tried to forget them. I have written once, and readers have read me many times, no? I try to think of what I wrote, it’s very unhealthy to think about the past, the case of elegies is very sad, as much as the case of complaints.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

For myth is at the beginning ...

For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

If you using local color in a...

If you using local color in an unobtrusive way, it is all for the good. But if you stress it, the whole thing is artificial. But it should be used, I mean, it's not forbidden. But you don't have to stress it.

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If I write a fantastic story,...

If I write a fantastic story, I'm not writing something willful. On the contrary, I am writing something that stands for my feelings, or for my thoughts. So that, in a sense, a fantastic story is as real and perhaps more real than a mere circumstantial story. Because after all, circumstances come and go, and symbols remain.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

I thought of a labyrinth of l...

I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future . . . I felt myself to be, for an unknown period of time, an abstract perceiver of the world.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

I am attracted to fantastic w...

I am attracted to fantastic writing, and fantastic reading, of course. But I think things that we call fantastic may be real, in the sense of being real symbols.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

Kafka had the sense of guilt....

Kafka had the sense of guilt. I don't think I have because I don't believe in free will. Because what I have done has been done, well, for me or through me. But I haven't done it really. But I don't believe in free will, I can't feel guilty.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

Islam asserts that on the una...

Islam asserts that on the unappealable Day of Judgment every perpetrator of the image of a living creature will be raised from the dead with his works, and he will be commanded to bring them to life, and he will fail, and be cast out with them into the fires of punishment.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

Poetry springs from something...

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

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

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