Jorge Luis Borges quotes

Life itself is a quotation. (Jorge Luis Borges)
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
Jorge Luis Borges
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
Jorge Luis Borges
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
Jorge Luis Borges
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
Jorge Luis Borges
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
Jorge Luis Borges
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
Jorge Luis Borges
There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.
Jorge Luis Borges
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
Jorge Luis Borges
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. (Jorge Luis Borges)
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
Jorge Luis Borges
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
Jorge Luis Borges
Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.
Jorge Luis Borges
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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.
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.
Jorge Luis Borges
My undertaking is not difficult, essentially... I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
Jorge Luis Borges
Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.
Jorge Luis Borges
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
Jorge Luis Borges
The central problem of novel-writing is causality. (Jorge Luis Borges)
Life and death have been lacking in my life.
Jorge Luis Borges
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
Jorge Luis Borges
The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
Jorge Luis Borges
Time can't be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
Jorge Luis Borges