“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
“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
“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
“Time is the thing I am made of. Time is a river that sweeps me along, but I am the river; it… — 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“Distance and antiquity (the emphases of space and time) pull on our hearts. If we are already sobered by the thought that… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
We (the indivisible divinity that works in us) have dreamed the world . We have dreamed it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river;… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Im merely a dreamer, and then a writer, and my happiest moments are when I'm a reader. — 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
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
“In the earliest times, which were so susceptible to vague speculation and the inevitable ordering of the universe, there can have existed… — 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
Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Taught by centuries of living, the republic of immortal men had achieved a perfection of tolerance, almost of disdain. They knew that… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Ars Poetica To gaze at the river made of time and water And recall that time itself is another river, To know… — 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
