The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI 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 BORGESYou may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWe accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThere’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe 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 BORGESTime can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhat you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
JORGE LUIS BORGESA man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
JORGE LUIS BORGESBlindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.
JORGE LUIS BORGESEvery man should be capable of all ideas.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
JORGE LUIS BORGESAnother 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 BORGESYou 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 BORGESOnly in the present do things happen.
JORGE LUIS BORGES