All Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
- There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it… Afternoon
- Fame is a form, perhaps the worst form, of incomprehension. Fame
- The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms. Based
- Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or… All
- The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral.... Art
- It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA. Choose
- Emma dropped the paper. Her first impression was of a weak feeling in her stomach and in her knees; then of blind guilt, of unreality,… Afterwards
- He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and… Believed
- The machinery of the world is far too complex for the simplicity of men. Complex
- What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite? Date
- I know of a wild region whose librarians repudiate the vain superstitious custom of seeking any sense in books and compare it to looking for… Accidental
- The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said. Looking for metaphors, for example:… Example
- I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all… All
- You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language? Inspirational
- To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we'll see each other tomorrow.… Bye
- Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. Book
- i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive Arrive
- Why do you seem so annoyed at what I'm saying?" "Because we're too much like each other. I loathe your face, which is a caricature… Annoyed
- How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives? Illuminate
- We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe. Dragon
- The web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect, or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces "every" possibility.… Another Bifurcate
- There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her. Forget
- We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real. Accept
- As the end approaches, there are no longer any images from memory - there are only words. Any
- Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order,… Almost Physically