Jorge Luis Borges Quotes About Reading
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I am attracted to fantastic writing, and fantastic reading, of course. But I think things that we call fantastic may be real, in the sense of being real symbols.
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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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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Besides, rereading, not reading, is what counts.
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In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and theories are nothing more than stimuli and that the final work usually ignores or even contradicts them.
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I am interested in the past. Perhaps one of the reasons is we cannot make, cannot change the past. I mean you can hardly unmake the present. But the past after all is merely to say a memory, a dream. You know my own past seems continually changed when I am remembering it, or reading things that are interesting to me.
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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