“Si me quieren buscar, búsquenme en los libros. No los lean, por favor, si no obtienen placer.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“A mí no me gusta que la gente me haga confidencias, porque mientras me dicen cosas importantísimas pienso en otra cosa y… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“It's enough that if I am rich in anything, it is in perplexities rather then in certaintes.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer - if there is any afterlife - to… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“The three of them knew it. She was Kafka’s mistress. Kafka had dreamt her. The three of them knew it. He was… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Mirrors in metal, and the masked Mirror of mahogany that in its mist Of a red twilight hazes The face that is… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“The metaphysicians of Tlön are not looking for truth, nor even for an approximation of it; they are after a kind of… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Their books are also different. Works of fiction contain a single plot, with all its imaginable permutations. Those of a philosophical nature… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“But I will relate what happened with absolute honesty; that, perhaps, will help me understand it. After all, when one confesses to… — 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