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Jorge Luis Borges Inspirational Quotes (197)

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It seemed incredible to me that day without premonitions or symbols should be the one of my inexorable death .
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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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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his reader to believe it.
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For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination will reject it.
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His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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The two important facts I should say, are emotion, and then words arising from emotion. I don't think you can write in an emotionless way. If you attempt it, the result is artificial. I don't like that kind of writing. I think that if a poem is really great, you should think of it as having written itself despite the author. It should flow.
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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist - I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don't have to solve that problem. It's up to God, if any.
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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death?
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A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice in murder, courage in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all of my instants would be provisional phases, annihilators of the past turned to face the future, and that beyond the episodic, the present, the circumstantial, we were nobody.
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Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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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.
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Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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