All Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
- Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love. Beloved
- There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea,… Certain
- Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope, the telescope, are… All
- The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all of my instants… Absolute
- The aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, as water. We feel poetry as we feel… Aesthetic
- Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may… Agnostic
- A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing… Dies
- The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something… All
- All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them. All
- The gods weave misfortunes for men, so that the generations to come will have something to sing about.” Mallarmé repeats, less beautifully, what Homer said;… Among
- Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits. Difficult
- What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world? The voice of Macedonio Fernandez,… Bar
- I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else. Change
- Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I… Book
- A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the right reader comes… Along
- Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who… Any
- It only takes two facing mirrors to build a labyrinth. Build
- Don't talk unless you can improve the silence. Communication
- I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions,… Abstractions
- When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself Astonishment
- Not a single star will be left in the night. The night will not be left. I will die and, with me, the weight of… Accumulated
- A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships Axes
- The European and the North American consider that a book that has been awarded any kind of prize must be good; the Argentine allows for… Allows
- From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me. Drew
- So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. Birthday