Literature Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges

17 Literature quotes by Jorge Luis Borges

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Borges turns the act of reading into a puzzle, and these seventeen snippets capture his fascination with endless narratives, mirrors, and the hidden architecture of stories.

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All literature, is, finally autobiographical.

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For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.

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Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not.

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Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.

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One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in…

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“En mi época no había Best-Sellers y no podíamos prostituírnos. No había quien comprara nuestra prostitución.”

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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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“The metaphysicians of Tlön are not looking for truth, nor even for an approximation of it; they are after a kind of…

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“So witless did these ideas strike me as being, so sweeping and pompous the way they were expressed, that I associated them…

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In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of…

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In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and…

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I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or…

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Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated…

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We did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I…

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“I reread these negative remarks and realize that I do not know whether music can despair of music or marble of marble.…

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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said. Looking for…

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“When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation." [As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda…

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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?

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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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Every man should be capable of all ideas.

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Writing is only a guided dream.

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