I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Mirrors and copulation are abominable, since they both multiply the numbers of men.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Mirrors in metal, and the masked Mirror of mahogany that in its mist Of a red twilight hazes The face that is… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“On the back part of the step, toward the right, I saw a small iridescent sphere of almost unbearable brilliance. At first… — 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
