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Jorge Luis Borges Inspirational Quotes (197)

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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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I am interested in the past. Perhaps one of the reasons is we cannot make, cannot change the past. I mean you can hardly unmake the present. But the past after all is merely to say a memory, a dream. You know my own past seems continually changed when I am remembering it, or reading things that are interesting to me.
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The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
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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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As the end approaches, there are no longer any images from memory - there are only words.
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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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The mathematical sciences wield their particular language made of digits and signs, no less subtle than any other.
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No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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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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There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her.
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I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
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The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part of the authorities to act slowly and impersonally, in the manner of planets or vegetables.
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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.
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The European and the North American consider that a book that has been awarded any kind of prize must be good the Argentine allows for the possibility that the book might not be bad, despite the prize.
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La duda es uno de los nombres de la inteligencia.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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In fact I'm in too much of a mental muddle to know where I am - an idealist or not. I'm a mere man of letters, and I do what I can with those subjects.
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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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