The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I confess that I have not cleared a path through all seven hundred pages, I confess to having examined only bits and… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Gradually, the concrete enigma I labored at disturbed me less than the generic enigma of a sentence written by a god. What… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“What type of sentence (I asked myself) will an absolute mind construct? I considered that even in human languages there is no… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“All language is a set of symbols whose use among its speakers assumes a share past” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I think of myself primarily as a reader, then also a writer, but that's more or less irrelevant. I think I'm a… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The mathematical sciences wield their particular language made of digits and signs, no less subtle than any other. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“There are objects made up of two sense elements, one visual, the other auditory—the colour of a sunrise and the distant call… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Words, displaced and mutilated words, words of others, were the poor pittance left him by the hours and the centuries.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers. — 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
