You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
JORGE LUIS BORGESReality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
-
-
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
Everything touches everything.
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