To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men. — 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 worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics;… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform,… — 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
This web of time--the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect or ignore eachother through the centuries--embrace every posibility. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
That is what always happens: we never know whether we are victors or whether we are defeated. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. — 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
