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
The web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect, or ignore each other through the centuries -… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
We did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“The author of an atrocious undertaking ought to imagine that he has already accomplished it, ought to impose upon himself a future… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Every man should be capable of all ideas, and I believe that in the future he will be.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Music, states of happiness, mythology, faces belaboured by time, certain twilights and certain places try to tell us something, or have said… — 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 and in… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Someone A man worn down by time, a man who does not even expect death (the proofs of death are statistics and… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
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
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
“One is allowed to change the past: the present is so stubborn.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to construct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Learning After some time, you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and imprisoning a soul; You learn that love does… — 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
“Years later, Taylor was inspecting the jails of the kingdom; and in the one at Nittur the ceiling had been covered, in… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Afterglow" Sunset is always disturbing whether theatrical or muted, but still more disturbing is that last desperate glow that turns the plain… — 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
“In its world, there are no names, nor past, nor future, only the sureness of the present moment.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“If I could live again my life, In the next – I’ll try, - to make more mistakes, I won’t try to… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Poem Written in a Copy of Beowulf At various times, I have asked myself what reasons moved me to study, while my… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
You can't measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told… — 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
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
