“One is allowed to change the past: the present is so stubborn.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. In one of them I am your enemy.” — 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
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps. — 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, 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
“All language is a set of symbols whose use among its speakers assumes a share past” — 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
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
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 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
I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The… — 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
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
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
“Halfway through his reclusion, Arredondo experienced more than once that almost timeless time. In the first of the house’s three patios there… — 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
“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
“It was under English trees that I meditated on that lost labyrinth: I pictured it perfect and inviolate on the secret summit… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Any time something is written against me, I not only share the sentiment but feel I could do the job far better… — 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
“I imagined a labyrinth of labyrinths, a maze of mazes, a twisting, turning, ever-widening labyrinth that contained both past and future and… — 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
“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
“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
“In its world, there are no names, nor past, nor future, only the sureness of the present moment.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant… — 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
“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
“The fact is that every author creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify… — 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
I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government. — 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
If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Which one 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
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
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
