Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Time can't be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every… — 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
For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am… — 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… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we'll see… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said. Looking for… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I, who have been so many men in vain, want to be one man, myself alone. From out of a whirlwind the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The man who has learned that three plus one are four doesn't have to go through a proof of that assertion with… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Days and nights passed over this despair of flesh, but one morning he awoke, looked (with calm now) at the blurred things… — 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
