If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIf space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
JORGE LUIS BORGESDictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
JORGE LUIS BORGESA poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
JORGE LUIS BORGESMy undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
JORGE LUIS BORGESDemocracy is an abuse of statistics.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThere’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
JORGE LUIS BORGESReality favors symmetry.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhat I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
JORGE LUIS BORGESBeing an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
JORGE LUIS BORGESOne concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
JORGE LUIS BORGES