I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhen I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
JORGE LUIS BORGESDeath is just infinity closing in.
JORGE LUIS BORGESMan’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
JORGE LUIS BORGESYou may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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 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 BORGESAll that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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 BORGESA book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI 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 BORGESOne concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThere’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
JORGE LUIS BORGES