Jorge Luis Borges Quotes - Page 14

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• Although I'm very lazy when it comes to writing, I'm not that lazy when it comes to thinking. I like to develop the plan of a short story, then cut it as short as possible, try to evolve all the necessary details. I know far more about the characters than what actually comes out of the writing.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Writing, Character, Cutting

  Source: www.bu.edu

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• In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Vocabulary, Rivalry, Connotation

  "Kafka and His Precursors" (1951) (translation by James E. Irby)

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• The steps a man takes from the day of his birth until that of his death trace in time an inconcievable figure. The Divine Mind intuitively grasps that form immediately, as men do a triangle.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  God, Men, Mind

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.212, New Directions Publishing

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• You will reply that reality hasn't the slightest need to be of interest. And I'll answer you that reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but that hypotheses may not. In the hypothesis you have postulated, chance intervenes largely. Here lies a dead rabbi; I should prefer a purely rabbinical explanation; not the imaginary mischances of an imaginary robber.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Lying, Reality, Interesting

  Jorge Luis Borges, Anthony Kerrigan (1968). “A Personal Anthology”, p.2, Grove Press

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• Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Art, Temptation, Genius

  Jorge Luis Borges, John Sturrock (1993). “Ficciones”

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• As the end approaches, there are no longer any images from memory - there are only words.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Memories, Ends, Approach

  Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley (2004). “Aleph and other stories”, Penguin Classics

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• Islam asserts that on the unappealable Day of Judgment every perpetrator of the image of a living creature will be raised from the dead with his works, and he will be commanded to bring them to life, and he will fail, and be cast out with them into the fires of punishment.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Fire, Punishment, Islam

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Dreamtigers”, p.27, University of Texas Press

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• As to my writing short pieces, there are two reasons I can give you. The first is my invincible laziness. The second is that I've always been fond of short stories, and it always took me some trouble to get through a novel.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Writing, Two, Giving

  Source: www.bu.edu

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• I have no personal system of philosophy. I never attempt to do that. I am merely a man of letters.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Philosophy, Men, Letters

  Source: denisdutton.com

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