Seven Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

“I no longer believe in literary schools now; I believe in the individual.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Seven Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges

“We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Seven Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges

“Alfonso Reyes said that one published what he had written in order to avoid spending his life correcting it: one publishes a book in order to leave it behind, one publishes a book in order to forget it.”
― Fernando Sorrentino, Seven Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges

“If a cat were to give birth in an oven, would you call what she gave birth to kittens or bread?”
― Fernando Sorrentino, Seven Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges

“That would be an argument against democracy and free elections. I suspect that the form of government is very unimportant, that what’s important is the country. Let’s suppose there were a republic in England or that there were a monarchy in Switzerland; I don’t know whether things would change much. Possibly they wouldn’t change at all. Because the people would still be the same. So I don’t think a particular form of government is any kind of panacea. Maybe we place too much emphasis on the form of government; maybe the individuals are what’s important.”
― Fernando Sorrentino, Seven Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges

“I’ve always thought it absurd for words to be added to music because I think music is a language, perhaps not a more precise one, but a much more effective language than language, than words.”
― Fernando Sorrentino, Seven Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges

“I believe that a writer should never attempt a contemporary theme or a very precise topography. Otherwise people are immediately going to find mistakes. Or if they don’t find them, they’re going to look for them, and if they look for them, they’ll find them. That’s why I prefer to have my stories take place in somewhat indeterminate places and many years ago.”
― Fernando Sorrentino, Seven Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges