La imaginación está hecha de convenciones de la memoria. Si yo no tuviera memoria no podría imaginar.

Jorge Luis Borges


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I know what the Greeks do not know, incertitude.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not.

Jorge Luis Borges

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i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive.

Jorge Luis Borges


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De los diversos instrumentos inventados por el hombre, el más asombroso es el libro; todos los demás son extensiones de su cuerpo… Sólo el libro es una extensión de la imaginación y la memoria”.

Jorge Luis Borges


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Why do you seem so annoyed at what I'm saying?"
"Because we're too much like each other. I loathe your face, which is a caricature of mine, I loathe your voice, which is a mockery of mine, I loathe your pathetic syntax, which is my own.

Jorge Luis Borges


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Boast of Quietness

Writings of light assault the darkness, more prodigious than meteors.
The tall unknowable city takes over the countryside.
Sure of my life and death, I observe the ambitious and would like to
understand them.
Their day is greedy as a lariat in the air.
Their night is a rest from the rage within steel, quick to attack.
They speak of humanity.
My humanity is in feeling we are all voices of that same poverty.
They speak of homeland.
My homeland is the rhythm of a guitar, a few portraits, an old sword,
the willow grove's visible prayer as evening falls.
Time is living me.
More silent than my shadow, I pass through the loftily covetous multitude.
They are indispensable, singular, worthy of tomorrow.
My name is someone and anyone.
I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Their books are also different. Works of fiction contain a single plot, with all its imaginable permutations. Those of a philosophical nature invariably include both the thesis and the antithesis, the rigorous pro and con of a doctrine. A book which does not contain its counterbook is considered incomplete.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Image is sorcery.

Jorge Luis Borges


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I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library.

Jorge Luis Borges


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