All Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
- A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships,… Bays
- In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The fact is that… All
- Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience in a garden… All
- You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is… Awakened
- Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read. Boast
- Let neither tear nor reproach besmirch this declaration of the mastery of God who, with magnificent irony, granted me both the gift of books and… Besmirch
- I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books. Book
- A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation… Axes
- It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors. Different Intonations
- I can’t talk about my books. I have written them and tried to forget them. I have written once, and readers have read me many… Book
- The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream. Dream
- God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us. Art
- Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a… Act
- Days and nights passed over this despair of flesh, but one morning he awoke, looked (with calm now) at the blurred things that lay about… All
- Once I am dead, there will be no lack of pious hands to throw me over the railing; my grave will be the fathomless air;… Air
- Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he… Art
- He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons even worse. Consorted
- I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes. Causes
- I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of… Country
- It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest… Allows
- He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude… Allude
- Man's memory shapes Its own Eden within Eden
- The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,' and I believe… According
- The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal. Annuls
- It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day. Been