I am attracted to fantastic writing, and fantastic reading, of course. But I think things that we call fantastic may be real,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment-the moment in which a… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I think it's all to the good that a writer shouldn't be too famous. Because, in a country where a writer may… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in the fact that a writer may label himself as being intellectual or anti-intellectual. l'm really interested in the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
You will reply that reality hasn't the slightest need to be of interest. And I'll answer you that reality may avoid the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant… — 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
You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I wonder if I have woven through dreams the sexual strife. I don't think so. But after all, my business is to… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
What I'm really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may… — 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
