Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
JORGE LUIS BORGESEvery novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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 BORGESNo one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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 BORGESThe future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTruth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
JORGE LUIS BORGESFrom my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
JORGE LUIS BORGESMy undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTime, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
JORGE LUIS BORGESDictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
JORGE LUIS BORGESHe thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
JORGE LUIS BORGESHeaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIt means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
JORGE LUIS BORGES