A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated. ✨ Jo…

Jorge Luis Borges
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated. ✨ Jorge Luis Borges (2013). Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations, p.9, Melville House
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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism. ✨ Jor … ▶
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself ✨ Jorge Luis Borges (1998). Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations, p.184, Univ. Press of Mississippi
When you reach my age, you realize you couldn't have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others. ✨ Jorge Luis Borges (2015). Ficciones, p.47, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Fame is a form, perhaps the worst form, of incomprehension. ✨ Jorge Luis Borges (2011). The Widow Ching--Pirate, p.57, Penguin UK

A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated. ✨ Jorge Luis Borges (2013). Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations, p.9, Melville House

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