“The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“The Library is a sphere whose exact centre is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The universe is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
This felicitous supposition declared that there is only one Individual, and that this indivisible Individual is every one of the separate beings… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I have tried (I am not sure how successfully) to write plain tales. I dare not say they are simple; there is… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
There is no exercise of the intellect which is not, in the final analysis, useless. A philosophical doctrine begins as a plausible… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“He intentado, no se con que fortuna, la redacción de cuentos directos. No me atrevo a afirmar que son sencillos; no hay… — 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
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 an afterlife or not, whether I believe in God or not, I can only answer you that all things are possible. And if all things are possible, heaven and hell and the angels are also possible.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share
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
