The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb. — 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
I have no personal system of philosophy. I never attempt to do that. I am merely a man of letters. — 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
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
What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
In fact I'm in too much of a mental muddle to know where I am - an idealist or not. I'm a… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said. Looking for… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The steps a man takes from the day of his birth until that of his death trace in time an inconcievable figure.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I, who have been so many men in vain, want to be one man, myself alone. From out of a whirlwind the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
On the floor, and hanging on to the bar, squatted an old man, immobile as an object. His years had reduced and… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Nowadays, one of the churches of Tlön maintains platonically that such and such a pain, such and such a greenish-yellow colour, such… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The man who has learned that three plus one are four doesn't have to go through a proof of that assertion with… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to more atrocious undertakings; soon there will be no one but warriors and… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence.… — 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
Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we'll see… — 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 machinery of the world is far too complex for the simplicity of men. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,'… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The gods weave misfortunes for men, so that the generations to come will have something to sing about.” Mallarmé repeats, less beautifully,… — 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
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
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