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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.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

The people of Tl?n are taught...

The people of Tl?n are taught that the act of counting modifies the amount counted, turning indefinites into definites. The fact that several persons counting the same quantity come to the same result is for the psychologists of Tl?n an example of the association of ideas or of memorization.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

You will reply that reality h...

You will reply that reality hasn't the slightest need to be of interest. And I'll answer you that reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but that hypotheses may not. In the hypothesis you have postulated, chance intervenes largely. Here lies a dead rabbi; I should prefer a purely rabbinical explanation; not the imaginary mischances of an imaginary robber.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

I know that when I think of m...

I know that when I think of myself as being utterly worn out, when I think that somehow I have nothing more to write, then something is happening within me. And, in due course, it bubbles up; it comes to the surface, and then I do my best to listen. But there's nothing mystical about all this. I suppose all writers do the same.

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The machinery of the world is...

The machinery of the world is far too complex for the simplicity of men.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

Time broadens the scope of ve...

Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

The things that are said in l...

The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said. Looking for metaphors, for example: When I was a young man I was always hunting for new metaphors. Then I found out that really good metaphors are always the same.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

I think it's all to the good ...

I think it's all to the good that a writer shouldn't be too famous. Because, in a country where a writer may be famous, he may be pandering to the mob, celebrity and so on.

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He constructed a vast labyrin...

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.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

Unlike the novel, a short sto...

Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

One literature differs from a...

One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

On the floor, and hanging on ...

On the floor, and hanging on to the bar, squatted an old man, immobile as an object. His years had reduced and polished him as water does a stone or the generations of men do a sentence.

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I hardly know what I'm going ...

I hardly know what I'm going to write - an article, a story, a poem in free verse - or in some regular form. I only know that when I have the first sentence. And when the first sentence makes a kind of pattern, then I find out the kind of rhythm I'm looking for.

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I think of myself primarily a...

I think of myself primarily as a reader, then also a writer, but that's more or less irrelevant. I think I'm a good reader, I'm a good reader in many languages, especially in English, since poetry came to me through the English language, initially through my father's love of Swinburn, of Tennyson, and also of Keats, Shelley and so on - not through my native tongue, not through Spanish. It came to me as a kind of spell. I didn't understand it, but I felt it.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

As the end approaches, there ...

As the end approaches, there are no longer any images from memory - there are only words.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

He was very religious; he bel...

He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.

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Dictatorships foster oppressi...

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.

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While we are asleep in this w...

While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one

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Soccer is popular because stu...

Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.

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I have committed the worst of...

I have committed the worst of sins one can commit... I have not been happy.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

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