The machinery of the world is far too complex for the simplicity of men. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I live in a grey world, rather like the silver screen world. But yellow stands out. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose? — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer - if there is any afterlife - to… — 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
I came to the idea of how fine it would be to think of an encyclopedia of an actual world, and then… — 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
Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world? The voice… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may… — 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 great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,'… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Emma dropped the paper. Her first impression was of a weak feeling in her stomach and in her knees; then of blind… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the… — 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
A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a… — 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
