The aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, as water. We feel poetry… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Friendship, you know, is as mysterious as love or any other state of this confusion that we call life. In fact, I… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Learning After some time, you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and imprisoning a soul; You learn that love does… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“I reread these negative remarks and realize that I do not know whether music can despair of music or marble of marble.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her. — 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
I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. — 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
“It is love. I will have to run or hide. The walls of its prison rise up, as in a twisted dream.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time. — 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 cannot lament the loss of a love or a friendship without meditating that one loses only what one really never had.” — 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
