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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
Canada is so far away it hardly exists.
— Jorge Luis Borges
We are our memory,we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes,
that pile of broken mirrors. — 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
If you're a writer you're bound to write something fine, at least now and then, off and on.
— Jorge Luis Borges
All writing is dreaming
— Jorge Luis Borges
The Library is a sphere whose exact centre is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible.
— Jorge Luis Borges
I came to abominate my body, I came to sense that two eyes, two hands, two lungs are as monstrous as two faces.
— Jorge Luis Borges
I no longer believe in literary schools now; I believe in the individual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Paradise will be a kind of library
— Jorge Luis Borges
If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his readers to believe it.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Words, displaced and mutilated words, words of others, were the poor pittance left him by the hours and the centuries.
— Jorge Luis Borges
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
— Jorge Luis Borges
The fact is that each writer creates his own precursors.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Unappreciated because too many of his [Rudyard Kipling's] peers were socialists.
— Jorge Luis Borges
The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Centuries of centuries and only in the present do things happen. - JORGE LUIS BORGES
— Elizabeth Kolbert
No one can read two thousand books. In the four hundred years I have lived, I've not read more than half a dozen
— Jorge Luis Borges
To refute him is to become contaminated with unreality.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
— Jorge Luis Borges
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
— Jorge Luis Borges
There is no greater comfort than the idea that we have chosen our own misfortunes.
— Jorge Luis Borges
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
— Jorge Luis Borges
It seemed incredible to me that day without premonitions or symbols should be the one of my inexorable death .
— Jorge Luis Borges
When a writer dies, he becomes his books.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers.
— Jorge Luis Borges
My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.
— Jorge Luis Borges
I know what the Greeks do not know, incertitude.
— Jorge Luis Borges
The fact is that every author creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
— Jorge Luis Borges
One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.
— Jorge Luis Borges
.....a miracle has the right to impose conditions.
— Jorge Luis Borges
I ... confirm the fact - with a certain bittersweet melancholy - that everything in the world brings me back to a quotation or a book.
— Jorge Luis Borges
I live in a grey world, rather like the silver screen world. But yellow stands out.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Novels include padding; I think padding may be an essential part of the novel, for all I know.
— Jorge Luis Borges
That is what always happens: we never know whether we are victors or whether we are defeated.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on meand treating me badly. — Jorge Luis Borges
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
— Jorge Luis Borges
My taste runs to hourglasses, maps, seventeenth-century typefaces, etymologies, the taste of coffee, and the prose of Robert Louis Stevenson.
— Jorge Luis Borges
We must not be too prodigal with our angels; they are the last divinities we harbor, and they might fly away.
— Jorge Luis Borges
I owe my first inkling of the problem of infinity to a large biscuit tin that was a source of vertiginous mystery during my childhood.
— Jorge Luis Borges
How strangeit is. For perfect things in poetry do not seem strange;
they seem inevitable. And so we hardly thank the
writer for his pains. — Jorge Luis Borges
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
— Jorge Luis Borges
We are like the wizard who weaves a labyrinth and is forced to wander through it till the end of his days
— Jorge Luis Borges
His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further.
— Jorge Luis Borges
You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Man's memory shapesIts own Eden within — Jorge Luis Borges
Retold, my dream is nothing; dreamt, it was terrible.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
— Jorge Luis Borges
We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
— Jorge Luis Borges
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
— Jorge Luis Borges
It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.
— 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
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
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
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
The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral ...
— Jorge Luis Borges
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.
— Jorge Luis Borges
I prayed aloud, less to plead for divine favor than to intimidate the tribe with articulate speech.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges: "I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library." "The
— Suzanne Kelman
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
— Jorge Luis Borges
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated.
— Jorge Luis Borges
A writer always begins by being too complicated - he's playing at several games at once.
— Jorge Luis Borges
The central problem of novel-writing is causality.
— Jorge Luis Borges
There is a Talmudic legend about three men who go in search of God. One became insane, the other died, and the third met himself.
— Jorge Luis Borges
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone
— Jorge Luis Borges
My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read.
— Jorge Luis Borges
In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry.
— Jorge Luis Borges
My memory, sir, is like a garbage disposal.
— Jorge Luis Borges
I leave to various future times, but not to all, my garden of forking paths.
— Jorge Luis Borges
I don't think esthetic schools are important. What is important is the use that is made of them, or whatever the individual writer does.
— Jorge Luis Borges
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
— Jorge Luis Borges
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
— Jorge Luis Borges
When a person reaches a certain age, there are many things he or she can feign: happiness is not one of them -- Jorge Luis Borges — Paul Illidge
I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
— Jorge Luis Borges