I don't think we're capable of knowledge, but I like to keep an open mind. So if you ask me whether I… — 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… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
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
We did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I try to avoid purple patches, fine writing, all that kind of thing... because I think they're a mistake. And then sometimes… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Kafka had the sense of guilt. I don't think I have because I don't believe in free will. Because what I have… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I am attracted to fantastic writing, and fantastic reading, of course. But I think things that we call fantastic may be real,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I can’t talk about my books. I have written them and tried to forget them. I have written once, and readers have… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I suppose every poet has his own private mythology. Maybe he's unaware of it. People tell me that I have evolved a… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I think it's all to the good that a writer shouldn't be too famous. Because, in a country where a writer may… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her. — 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
I don't think esthetic schools are important. What is important is the use that is made of them, or whatever the individual… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The two important facts I should say, are emotion, and then words arising from emotion. I don't think you can write in… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
You don't have to try to be contemporary. You are already contemporary. What one has in mythology is being evolved all the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Many people have thought of me as a thinker, as a philosopher, or even as a mystic. Well the truth is that… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I have used the philosophers' ideas for my own private literary purposes, but I don't think that I'm a thinker. I suppose… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer - even as Wells thought about him -… — 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
In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened… — 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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