All Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
- My father and he had one of those English friendships which begins by avoiding the intimacies and eventually eliminates speech altogether. Altogether
- A writer's work is the product of laziness. Inspirational
- Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. Consumes
- Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor Allow
- In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense. Absolute
- Censorship is the mother of metaphor. Censorship
- Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining... Art
- Only in the present do things happen. Funny
- The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book,… Book
- All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we… All
- Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark. Blind
- My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read. Book
- There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to… All
- The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday. Future
- All literature, is, finally autobiographical. All
- The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it. Abominable
- Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality. Every Novel
- The steps a man takes from the day of his birth until that of his death trace in time an inconcievable figure. The Divine Mind… Birth
- I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than… Author
- I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done. Afraid
- As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight. Book
- Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is… Another Either
- To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism. Arrange
- You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death. Cheated
- In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx;… Cause