All Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
- What you really value is what you miss, not what you have. Experience
- To bless thine enemy is a good way to satisfy thy vanity. Bless
- What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose? Die
- No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by… Assaulted
- Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way… Been
- Reality favors symmetry. Favors
- I, who have been so many men in vain, want to be one man, myself alone. From out of a whirlwind the voice of God… Alone
- That is what always happens: we never know whether we are victors or whether we are defeated. Always Happens
- If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his reader to believe it. Believe
- We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men. All
- The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic idea of the Muse to that of… Act
- It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or her is not… Art
- Had I to give advice to writers (and I do not think they need it, because everyone has to find out things for himself), I… Advice
- The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line Entrap
- While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one Another One
- Time is the substance of which we are made Inspirational
- I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in… Almost Sure
- I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library. Always Thought
- In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry. All
- In my next life I will try to commit more errors. Commit
- The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful. Art
- The universe is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries. Composed
- I have tried (I am not sure how successfully) to write plain tales. I dare not say they are simple; there is not a simple… All
- No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am… All
- Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him. Belongs