Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“I remember him with a dark passionflower in his hand, looking at it as no one has ever looked at such a… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I think of myself as being an ethical man, but I don't try to teach ethics. I have no message. I know… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library, — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“All our lives we postpone everything that can be postponed; perhaps we all have the certainty, deep inside, that we are immortal… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Taught by centuries of living, the republic of immortal men had achieved a perfection of tolerance, almost of disdain. They knew that… — 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
