Dream Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges

21 Dream quotes by Jorge Luis Borges

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Borges turns dreaming into a labyrinth of ideas—twenty‑one brief passages that feel like stepping through a mirror into a world of endless possibility.

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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

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All writing is dreaming

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Writing is only a guided dream.

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“Retold, my dream is nothing; dreamt, it was terrible.”

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“In the dream of the man that dreamed, the dreamed one awoke.”

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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

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I wonder if I have woven through dreams the sexual strife. I don't think so. But after all, my business is to…

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“He wanted to dream a man; he wanted to dream him with minute integrity and insert him into reality.”

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“Why a should a dream be any less real than this table. Or Macbeth be less real than today’s newspaper.”

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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…

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“And so, as I sleep, some dream beguiles me, and suddenly I know I am dreaming. Then I think: this is a…

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I, who have been so many men in vain, want to be one man, myself alone. From out of a whirlwind the…

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In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened…

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We (the indivisible divinity that works in us) have dreamed the world . We have dreamed it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in…

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I know of one semibarbarous zone whose librarians repudiate the "vain and superstitious habit" of trying to find sense in books, equating…

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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to…

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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…

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“The three of them knew it. She was Kafka’s mistress. Kafka had dreamt her. The three of them knew it. He was…

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Days and nights passed over this despair of flesh, but one morning he awoke, looked (with calm now) at the blurred things…

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I know of a wild region whose librarians repudiate the vain superstitious custom of seeking any sense in books and compare it…

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“One day or one night—between my days and nights, what difference can there be?—I dreamed that there was a grain of sand…

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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.

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The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify…

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I don't think we're capable of knowledge, but I like to keep an open mind. So if you ask me whether I believe in…

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The web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect, or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces "every"…

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“My memory, sir, is like a garbage disposal.”

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When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don't have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes,…

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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.

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