All Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
- One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite. Concept
- In general, every country has the language it deserves. Country
- Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment-the moment in which a man finds out,… All
- I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own… Date
- At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress their readers with… Becomes
- A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated. Another Lifetime
- A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship.… Day
- He constructed a vast labyrinthine of periods, made impassable by the piling-up of clauses upon clauses-clauses in which oversight and bad grammar seemed manifestations of… Bad
- Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much. Action
- Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers. Changes
- There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is… Appalling
- La duda es uno de los nombres de la inteligencia. De La
- Any time something is written against me, I not only share the sentiment but feel I could do the job far better myself. Perhaps I… Advise
- Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius. Ali
- There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless. Art
- Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future. Conception
- Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not. Avoid
- Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms Anachronism
- I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection. Every Mirror
- You will reply that reality hasn't the slightest need to be of interest. And I'll answer you that reality may avoid the obligation to be… Answer
- For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end. Beginning
- Doubt is one of the names of intelligence. Doubt
- Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard?… Bird
- Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy. Abominable
- That one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox. Another Memories