Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
Democracy is an abuse of statistics. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
In general, every country has the language it deserves. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
Life and death have been lacking in my life. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
Life itself is a quotation. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
Reality is not always probable, or likely. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
The central problem of novel-writing is causality. – Jorge Luis Borges Quotes