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A ... poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
— Jorge Luis Borges
With relief, with humiliation, with terror, he understood that he too was a mere appearance, dreamt by another.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not.
— Jorge Luis Borges
I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.
— Jorge Luis Borges
I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Solitude weighs me down. Company does too.
— Jorge Luis Borges
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.
— Jorge Luis Borges
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
— Jorge Luis Borges
The story of two dreams is a coincidence, a line drawn by chance, like the shapes of lions or horses that are sometimes formed by clouds.
— Jorge Luis Borges
The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.
— Jorge Luis Borges
The image of the Lord has been replaced by a mirror.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.
— Jorge Luis Borges
It's enough that if I am rich in anything, it is in perplexities rather then in certaintes.
— Jorge Luis Borges
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one
— Jorge Luis Borges
Misery requires paradises lost
— Jorge Luis Borges
.....a miracle has the right to impose conditions.
— Jorge Luis Borges
It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.
— Jorge Luis Borges
I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
— Jorge Luis Borges
I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the colour of a rose in Bengal.
— Jorge Luis Borges
There are people who barely feel poetry, and they are generally dedicated to teaching it.
— Jorge Luis Borges
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Each thing implies the universe.
— Jorge Luis Borges
All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them.
— Jorge Luis Borges
To think," Borges writes, "is to forget.
— Joshua Foer
All language is a set of symbols whose use among its speakers assumes a share past
— Jorge Luis Borges
Day and night, their fail and crippled ships defy the tempest.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Time is living me.
— Jorge Luis Borges