Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWriting is nothing more than a guided dream.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhen I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
JORGE LUIS BORGESDictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
JORGE LUIS BORGESAny life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhat a writer wants to do is not what he does.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
JORGE LUIS BORGESA book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhat I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhat will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
JORGE LUIS BORGESTime, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThere is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhen 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 BORGESHe consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
JORGE LUIS BORGESReality favors symmetry.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
JORGE LUIS BORGES