Life itself is a quotation.
JORGE LUIS BORGESLife itself is a quotation.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
JORGE LUIS BORGESPerhaps 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 BORGESTime is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
JORGE LUIS BORGESYour unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
JORGE LUIS BORGESPoets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
JORGE LUIS BORGESNothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThere’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTruth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhat you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhat will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
JORGE LUIS BORGESChang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
JORGE LUIS BORGESPersonally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
JORGE LUIS BORGESReality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
JORGE LUIS BORGES