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Thinking Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges
- I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just…
- I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
- My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read.
- In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx;…
- Had I to give advice to writers (and I do not think they need it, because everyone has to find out things for himself), I…
- I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in…
- You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is…
- 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…
- To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence. To glorify the…
- A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have…
- We did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I don't think anything…
- There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her.
- I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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