Jorge Luis Borges Quotes about Language

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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.

The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.

Jorge Luis Borges

Language, Plausible

The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.

Jorge Luis Borges

Writing, Language, Made

You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language?

Jorge Luis Borges

Understanding, Language

Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East Irby (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.58, New Directions Publishing

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

Jorge Luis Borges

Country, Language, Deserve

I think of myself primarily as a reader, then also a writer, but that's more or less irrelevant. I think I'm a good reader, I'm a good reader in many languages, especially in English, since poetry came to me through the English language, initially through my father's love of Swinburn, of Tennyson, and also of Keats, Shelley and so on - not through my native tongue, not through Spanish. It came to me as a kind of spell. I didn't understand it, but I felt it.

Jorge Luis Borges

Thinking, Language, Kind

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