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Books Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges
- When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
- The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book,…
- My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read.
- Let neither tear nor reproach besmirch this declaration of the mastery of God who, with magnificent irony, granted me both the gift of books and…
- I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
- I can’t talk about my books. I have written them and tried to forget them. I have written once, and readers have read me many…
- Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a…
- Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they…
- I know of a wild region whose librarians repudiate the vain superstitious custom of seeking any sense in books and compare it to looking for…
- Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order,…
- Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I…
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