Ifs Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges

May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.

— Jorge Luis Borges

If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library,

— Jorge Luis Borges

A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated.

— Jorge Luis Borges

I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.

— Jorge Luis Borges

I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer - if there is any afterlife - to…

— Jorge Luis Borges

If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point…

— Jorge Luis Borges

If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his reader to believe it.

— Jorge Luis Borges

I don't think we're capable of knowledge, but I like to keep an open mind. So if you ask me whether I…

— Jorge Luis Borges

People think that I've committed myself to idealism, to solipsism, or to doctrines of the cabala, because I've used them in my…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I wonder if I have woven through dreams the sexual strife. I don't think so. But after all, my business is to…

— Jorge Luis Borges

The aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, of water. We feel poetry…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist - I mean,…

— Jorge Luis Borges

If I write a fantastic story, I'm not writing something willful. On the contrary, I am writing something that stands for my…

— Jorge Luis Borges

There is no exercise of the intellect which is not, in the final analysis, useless. A philosophical doctrine begins as a plausible…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we're writing, something…

— Jorge Luis Borges

The man who has learned that three plus one are four doesn't have to go through a proof of that assertion with…

— Jorge Luis Borges

On those remote pages [of 'a certain Chinese encyclopedia'] it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I write for myself, and perhaps for half a dozen friends. And that should be enough. And that might improve the quality…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you…

— Jorge Luis Borges

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