The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
JORGE LUIS BORGESHappy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTime is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
JORGE LUIS BORGESEverything touches everything.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI have always come to life after coming to books.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhile we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIf space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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 BORGESA writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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.
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