A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“The author of an atrocious undertaking ought to imagine that he has already accomplished it, ought to impose upon himself a future… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I know of one semibarbarous zone whose librarians repudiate the "vain and superstitious habit" of trying to find sense in books, equating… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“If you sell, say, two thousand copies, it is the same thing as if you had sold nothing at all because two… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to construct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“In literary practices the idea of a single subject is also all-powerful. It is uncommon for books to be signed. The concept… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I can’t talk about my books. I have written them and tried to forget them. I have written once, and readers have… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“In art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“This delay (whose importance the reader will appreciate later) was due to a desire on the part of the authorities to act… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“The taste of the apple ... lies in the contact of the fruit with the palate, not in the fruit itself; in… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man's diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Let neither tear nor reproach besmirch this declaration of the mastery of God who, with magnificent irony, granted me both the gift… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“It is a laborious madness and an impoverishing one, the madness of composing vast books - setting out in five hundred pages… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“The fact is that every author creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“There are those who cannot imagine a world without birds; there are those who cannot imagine a world without water; but in… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I don't think we're capable of knowledge, but I like to keep an open mind. So if you ask me whether I believe in… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect, or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces "every"… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don't have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
