You can't measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
Jorge Luis BorgesRead
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Readers are encouraged to interpret and transform the text to create a personal meaning.
This quote by Jorge Luis Borges emphasizes the active role of the reader in the process of engaging with a text. Instead of passively absorbing information, readers should misunderstand, reinterpret, and ultimately reshape what they read, making it a part of their own perspective and understanding. This notion encourages creativity and personal engagement with literature.
Themes
ReadingInterpretationUnderstandingLiteratureTransformation
In practice
Example use cases
A teacher could use this quote to inspire students to engage more deeply with their reading assignments.
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The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part of the authorities to act slowly and impersonally, in the manner of planets or vegetables.
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This felicitous supposition declared that there is only one Individual, and that this indivisible Individual is every one of the separate beings in the universe, and that these beings are the instruments and masks of divinity itself.
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Let neither tear nor reproach besmirch this declaration of the mastery of God who, with magnificent irony, granted me both the gift of books and the night.
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