How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
JORGE LUIS BORGESHow can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
JORGE LUIS BORGESWriting is nothing more than a guided dream.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
JORGE LUIS BORGESHe was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
JORGE LUIS BORGESHeaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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 BORGESWe forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
JORGE LUIS BORGESReality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
JORGE LUIS BORGESIt’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhat will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
JORGE LUIS BORGESMay Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
JORGE LUIS BORGES