Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
JORGE LUIS BORGESA system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
-
-
Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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 -
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
Life itself is a quotation.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
JORGE LUIS BORGES