I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I write for myself, and perhaps for half a dozen friends. And that should be enough. And that might improve the quality… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
That one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Any time something is written against me, I not only share the sentiment but feel I could do the job far better… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
You will reply that reality hasn't the slightest need to be of interest. And I'll answer you that reality may avoid the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we're writing, something… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
It seemed incredible to me that day without premonitions or symbols should be the one of my inexorable death . — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library, — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Had I to give advice to writers (and I do not think they need it, because everyone has to find out things… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I came to the idea of how fine it would be to think of an encyclopedia of an actual world, and then… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
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… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect, or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces "every"… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
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,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
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