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Jorge Luis Borges Inspirational Quotes (197)

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Canada is so far away it hardly exists.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not.
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A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the right reader comes along, and the words—or rather the poetry behind the words, for the words themselves are mere symbols—spring to life, and we have a resurrection of the word.
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Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso / Bajo la especie de una biblioteca. I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.
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I would define the baroque as that style that deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) its own possibilities, and that borders on self-caricature. The baroque is the final stage in all art, when art flaunts and squanders its resources.
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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I confess that I have not cleared a path through all seven hundred pages, I confess to having examined only bits and pieces, and yet I know what it is, with that bold and legitimate certainty with which we assert our knowledge of a city, without ever having been rewarded with the intimacy of all the many streets it includes.
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone
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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.
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text he should change it into something else.
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Art always opts for the individual, the concrete art is not Platonic.
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I have no personal system of philosophy. I never attempt to do that. I am merely a man of letters.
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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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A writer's work is the product of laziness.
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I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer - if there is any afterlife - to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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