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From Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges
- Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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?
- i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive
- As the end approaches, there are no longer any images from memory - there are only words.
- From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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