--- title: "20 Ifs Quotes By Jorge Luis Borges" description: "20 Ifs quotes by Jorge Luis Borges. Plus more from Jorge Luis Borges and more Ifs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5e/jorge-luis-borges-275_exist_may-heaven-exist-even-if-my-place-is-hel_830762.jpg" --- > [May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/may-heaven-exist-even-if-my-place-is-hell/) [Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorge-luis-borges/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5e/jorge-luis-borges-275_exist_may-heaven-exist-even-if-my-place-is-hel_830762.jpg) > [If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/if-i-were-asked-to-name-the-chief-event-in-my-life-i-should-say-my/) [Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorge-luis-borges/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e82/jorge-luis-borges-275_chiefs_if-i-were-asked-to-name-the-chief-event_2946516.jpg) > [A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/a-writer-should-have-another-lifetime-to-see-if-he-s-appreciated/) [Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorge-luis-borges/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25c/jorge-luis-borges-275_another-life_a-writer-should-have-another-lifetime-to_2885443.jpg) > [I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer - if there is any afterlife - to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/i-might-accept-immortality-if-i-had-to-do-it-but-i-would-prefer-if/) [Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorge-luis-borges/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/934/jorge-luis-borges-275_accepting_i-might-accept-immortality-if-i-had-to-d_1540230.jpg) > [If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/if-space-is-infinite-we-may-be-at-any-point-in-space-if-time-is/) [Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorge-luis-borges/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6a/jorge-luis-borges-275_ifs_if-space-is-infinite-we-may-be-at-any-po_2166206.jpg) > [If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his reader to believe it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/if-a-writer-disbelieves-what-he-is-writing-then-he-can-hardly-expect-2/) [Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorge-luis-borges/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ef/jorge-luis-borges-275_believe_if-a-writer-disbelieves-what-he-is-writi_2918518.jpg) > [I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/i-ask-of-any-god-of-any-gods-that-if-they-give-immortality-i-hope-to/) [Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorge-luis-borges/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d1e/jorge-luis-borges-275_asks_i-ask-of-any-god-of-any-gods-that-if-the_1239222.jpg) > [Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we're writing, something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/art-is-very-mysterious-i-wonder-if-you-can-really-do-any-damage-to/) [Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorge-luis-borges/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/973/jorge-luis-borges-275_art_art-is-very-mysterious-i-wonder-if-you-c_1817479.jpg) > [Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/reality-is-not-always-probable-or-likely-but-if-you-re-writing-a/) [Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorge-luis-borges/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/524/jorge-luis-borges-275_ifs_reality-is-not-always-probable-or-likely_2477115.jpg) > [I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man's diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/i-believe-books-will-never-disappear-it-is-impossible-for-it-to/) [Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorge-luis-borges/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ea/jorge-luis-borges-275_believe_i-believe-books-will-never-disappear-it_785165.jpg) > [I wonder if I have woven through dreams the sexual strife. I don't think so. But after all, my business is to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/i-wonder-if-i-have-woven-through-dreams-the-sexual-strife-i-don-t/) [Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorge-luis-borges/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/152/jorge-luis-borges-275_business_i-wonder-if-i-have-woven-through-dreams_2775421.jpg) > [People think that I've committed myself to idealism, to solipsism, or to doctrines of the cabala, because I've used them in my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/people-think-that-i-ve-committed-myself-to-idealism-to-solipsism-or/) [Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorge-luis-borges/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed5/jorge-luis-borges-275_affinity_people-think-that-i-ve-committed-myself_2987740.jpg) > [I don't think we're capable of knowledge, but I like to keep an open mind. So if you ask me whether I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/i-don-t-think-we-re-capable-of-knowledge-but-i-like-to-keep-an-open/) [Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorge-luis-borges/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d1b/jorge-luis-borges-275_afterlife_i-don-t-think-we-re-capable-of-knowledge_52710.jpg) > [The aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, of water. We feel poetry…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/the-aesthetic-event-is-something-as-evident-as-immediate-as-2/) [Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorge-luis-borges/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bae/jorge-luis-borges-275_aesthetic_the-aesthetic-event-is-something-as-evid_139732.jpg) > [I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist - I mean,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/i-suppose-identity-depends-on-memory-and-if-my-memory-is-blotted-out/) [Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorge-luis-borges/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3cc/jorge-luis-borges-275_courses_i-suppose-identity-depends-on-memory-and_1150334.jpg) > [ On those remote pages \[of 'a certain Chinese encyclopedia'\] it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/on-those-remote-pages-of-a-certain-chinese-encyclopedia-it-is-written/) [Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorge-luis-borges/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6bd/jorge-luis-borges-275_animal_on-those-remote-pages-of-a-certain-chine_1416502.jpg) > [I write for myself, and perhaps for half a dozen friends. And that should be enough. And that might improve the quality…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/i-write-for-myself-and-perhaps-for-half-a-dozen-friends-and-that/) [Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorge-luis-borges/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/101/jorge-luis-borges-275_dozen_i-write-for-myself-and-perhaps-for-half_892824.jpg) > [The man who has learned that three plus one are four doesn't have to go through a proof of that assertion with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/the-man-who-has-learned-that-three-plus-one-are-four-doesn-t-have-to/) [Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorge-luis-borges/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c11/jorge-luis-borges-275_assertion_the-man-who-has-learned-that-three-plus_1346046.jpg) > [There is no exercise of the intellect which is not, in the final analysis, useless. A philosophical doctrine begins as a plausible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/there-is-no-exercise-of-the-intellect-which-is-not-in-the-final/) [Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorge-luis-borges/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d1/jorge-luis-borges-275_analysis_there-is-no-exercise-of-the-intellect-wh_3042475.jpg) > [If I write a fantastic story, I'm not writing something willful. On the contrary, I am writing something that stands for my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/if-i-write-a-fantastic-story-i-m-not-writing-something-willful-on-the/) [Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorge-luis-borges/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/551/jorge-luis-borges-275_circumstances_if-i-write-a-fantastic-story-i-m-not-wri_726397.jpg) ## Other authors on Ifs ## More by Jorge Luis Borges > [“No hables a menos que puedas mejorar el silencio.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/no-hables-a-menos-que-puedas-mejorar-el-silencio/) [Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorge-luis-borges/) > [The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/the-execution-was-set-for-the-29th-of-march-at-nine-in-the-morning/) [Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorge-luis-borges/) > [Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/like-all-writers-he-measured-the-achievements-of-others-by-what-they/) [Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorge-luis-borges/) > [How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/how-can-we-manage-to-illuminate-the-pathos-of-our-lives/) [Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorge-luis-borges/) > [Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/loneliness-does-not-worry-me-life-is-difficult-enough-putting-up-with/) [Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorge-luis-borges/) > [The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/the-fact-is-that-all-writers-create-their-precursors-their-work/) [Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 believe in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/i-don-t-think-we-re-capable-of-knowledge-but-i-like-to-keep-an-open/) [Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorge-luis-borges/) > [The web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect, or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces "every"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/the-web-of-time-the-strands-of-which-approach-one-another-bifurcate/) [Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorge-luis-borges/) > [“My memory, sir, is like a garbage disposal.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/my-memory-sir-is-like-a-garbage-disposal/) [Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorge-luis-borges/) > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/when-i-write-i-do-it-urged-by-an-intimate-necessity-i-don-t-have-in/) [Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorge-luis-borges/) > [The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/the-mind-was-dreaming-the-world-was-its-dream/) [Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorge-luis-borges/) > [I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/i-foresee-that-man-will-resign-himself-each-day-to-new-abominations/) [Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorge-luis-borges/) > [“If I could live again - I will travel light, If I could live again - I'll try to work bare feet at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/if-i-could-live-again-i-will-travel-light-if-i-could-live-again-i-ll/) [Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorge-luis-borges/) > [Every man should be capable of all ideas.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/every-man-should-be-capable-of-all-ideas/) [Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorge-luis-borges/) > [Writing is only a guided dream.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/writing-is-only-a-guided-dream/) [Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorge-luis-borges/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/jorge-luis-borges/#itemlist", "name": "20 Ifs Quotes By Jorge Luis Borges", "numberOfItems": 20, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jorge Luis Borges" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/may-heaven-exist-even-if-my-place-is-hell/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5e/jorge-luis-borges-275_exist_may-heaven-exist-even-if-my-place-is-hel_830762.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5e/jorge-luis-borges-275_exist_may-heaven-exist-even-if-my-place-is-hel_830762.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5e/jorge-luis-borges-275_exist_may-heaven-exist-even-if-my-place-is-hel_830762.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.” — Jorge Luis Borges", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library,", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jorge Luis Borges" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/if-i-were-asked-to-name-the-chief-event-in-my-life-i-should-say-my/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e82/jorge-luis-borges-275_chiefs_if-i-were-asked-to-name-the-chief-event_2946516.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e82/jorge-luis-borges-275_chiefs_if-i-were-asked-to-name-the-chief-event_2946516.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e82/jorge-luis-borges-275_chiefs_if-i-were-asked-to-name-the-chief-event_2946516.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library,” — Jorge Luis Borges", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jorge Luis Borges" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/a-writer-should-have-another-lifetime-to-see-if-he-s-appreciated/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25c/jorge-luis-borges-275_another-life_a-writer-should-have-another-lifetime-to_2885443.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25c/jorge-luis-borges-275_another-life_a-writer-should-have-another-lifetime-to_2885443.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25c/jorge-luis-borges-275_another-life_a-writer-should-have-another-lifetime-to_2885443.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated.” — Jorge Luis Borges", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. 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