All Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
- In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by… Abuse
- It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death. Day
- Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if… Always Probable
- My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges. Advanced
- We (the indivisible divinity that works in us) have dreamed the world . We have dreamed it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in space and firm… Allowed
- On the floor, and hanging on to the bar, squatted an old man, immobile as an object. His years had reduced and polished him as… Bar
- The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part of… Act
- The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy. Confused
- This felicitous supposition declared that there is only one Individual, and that this indivisible Individual is every one of the separate beings in the universe,… Beings
- This web of time--the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect or ignore eachother through the centuries--embrace every posibility. Another Bifurcate
- There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances and changes, the… Changes
- Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men. All
- Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is. All
- In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the… Act
- I would define the baroque as that style that deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) its own possibilities, and that borders on self-caricature. The baroque… All
- The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry. Been
- I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future . . . I felt… Abstract
- When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation. All
- I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me. All
- I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love. Book
- If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library, Asked
- If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time. Any
- Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular. Inspirational
- The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a… Belief
- I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the colour of a rose in Bengal. Bengal