Knows Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges

16 Knows quotes by Jorge Luis Borges

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Borges treats knowing as a maze of mirrors and infinite possibilities. These sixteen lines capture his love for paradoxical thought and the literary puzzles that define his work.

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That is what always happens: we never know whether we are victors or whether we are defeated.

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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.

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What I'm really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.

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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date…

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

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I hardly know what I'm going to write - an article, a story, a poem in free verse - or in some…

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Although I'm very lazy when it comes to writing, I'm not that lazy when it comes to thinking. I like to develop…

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It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for…

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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 might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer - if there is any afterlife - to…

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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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In fact I'm in too much of a mental muddle to know where I am - an idealist or not. I'm a…

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I write for myself, and perhaps for half a dozen friends. And that should be enough. And that might improve the quality…

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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…

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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…

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The man who has learned that three plus one are four doesn't have to go through a proof of that assertion with…

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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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Every man should be capable of all ideas.

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Writing is only a guided dream.

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