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My friends tell me that I am an intruder, that I don't really write when I attempt poetry. But those of my friends who write in prose say that I'm no writer when I attempt prose. So really I don't know what to do, I'm

My friends tell me that I am an intruder, that I don't really write when I attempt poetry. But those of my friends who write in prose say that I'm no writer when I attempt prose. So really I don't know what to do, I'm in a quandary.

Jorge Luis Borges
Writing, Prose
Source: thefloatinglibrary.com

On the floor, and hanging on to the bar, squatted an old man, immobile as an object. His years had reduced and polished him as water does a stone or the generations of men do a sentence.

Jorge Luis Borges
Men, Years, Water
Jorge Luis Borges, Anthony Kerrigan (1968). “A Personal Anthology”, p.21, Grove Press

For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.

Jorge Luis Borges
Literature, Ends, Myth
Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Dreamtigers”, p.42, University of Texas Press

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”

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

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)

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

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

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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