Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

In general, every country has the language it deserves... view

By: Jorge Luis Borges

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely... view

By: Jorge Luis Borges

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is... view

By: Jorge Luis Borges

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

By: Jorge Luis Borges

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god... view

By: Jorge Luis Borges

To be immortal is commonplace.. view

By: Jorge Luis Borges

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river.. view

By: Jorge Luis Borges

There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics.. view

By: Jorge Luis Borges

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off.. view

By: Jorge Luis Borges

The original is unfaithful to the translation... view

By: Jorge Luis Borges

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing... view

By: Jorge Luis Borges

The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb... view

By: Jorge Luis Borges

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future... view

By: Jorge Luis Borges

The central problem of novel-writing is causality... view

By: Jorge Luis Borges

Reality is not always probable, or likely... view

By: Jorge Luis Borges

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

By: Jorge Luis Borges

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does... view

By: Jorge Luis Borges

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream... view

By: Jorge Luis Borges

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art... view

By: Jorge Luis Borges

Democracy is an abuse of statistics... view

By: Jorge Luis Borges

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete.. view

By: Jorge Luis Borges

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left... view

By: Jorge Luis Borges

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks... view

By: Jorge Luis Borges

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects... view

By: Jorge Luis Borges

Nothing is built on stone.. view

By: Jorge Luis Borges

Life itself is a quotation... view

By: Jorge Luis Borges

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety... view

By: Jorge Luis Borges

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned... view

By: Jorge Luis Borges

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics.. view

By: Jorge Luis Borges

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out... view

By: Jorge Luis Borges

Life and death have been lacking in my life... view

By: Jorge Luis Borges