Publishing Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

““Publicamos para não passar a vida a corrigir rascunhos. Quer dizer, a gente publica um livro para livrar-se dele””

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“No hables a menos que puedas mejorar el silencio.”

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The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part…

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Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he…

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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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