You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
JORGE LUIS BORGESYou may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
JORGE LUIS BORGESOnly in the present do things happen.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhat I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIn general, every country has the language it deserves.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTo arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
JORGE LUIS BORGESCreativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTruth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI think most people are more important than their opinions.
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 BORGESA writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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 BORGESSo plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
JORGE LUIS BORGES