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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.

I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.

Jorge Luis Borges
Reading, Thinking, Should
Norman Thomas Di Giovanni, Jorge Luis Borges, Anglo-Argentine Society (1988). “In memory of Borges”, Not Avail

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Jorge Luis Borges
Nature, Book, Reading
"Dreamtigers". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1960.

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

Jorge Luis Borges
Book, Reading, Sleep

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.

Jorge Luis Borges
Dream, Memories, Reading
Source: thefloatinglibrary.com

I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.

Jorge Luis Borges
Falling In Love, Book, Reading
Jorge Luis Borges (2013). “Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.28, Melville House

Besides, rereading, not reading, is what counts.

Jorge Luis Borges
Reading, Rereading

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.

Jorge Luis Borges
Reading, Finals, Literature
"Other Inquisitions". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1952.

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

Jorge Luis Borges
Hippie, Reading, Writing
Jorge Luis Borges (2001). “A Universal History of Iniquity”, Penguin Books

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.

Jorge Luis Borges
Real, Reading, Writing
Jorge Luis Borges (1998). “Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations”, p.77, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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