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
If I write a fantastic story, I'm not writing something willful. On the contrary, I am writing something that stands for my… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I know of a wild region whose librarians repudiate the vain superstitious custom of seeking any sense in books and compare it… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
It seemed incredible to me that day without premonitions or symbols should be the one of my inexorable death . — 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
A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then 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
