Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak...

There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak...

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry...

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry...

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man...

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man...

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it...

I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it...

Man is the measure of all things.

Man is the measure of all things.

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not...

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not...

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

...the image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror.

...the image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror.

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that...

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that...

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that...

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that...

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth...

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth...

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of...

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of...