The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory. — 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
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
The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future . .… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I can’t talk about my books. I have written them and tried to forget them. I have written once, and readers have… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The… — 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
I am interested in the past. Perhaps one of the reasons is we cannot make, cannot change the past. I mean you… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Not a single star will be left in the night. The night will not be left. I will die and, with me,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“One of the schools of Tlön goes so far as to negate time; it reasons that the present is indefinite, that the… — 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
