Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
JORGE LUIS BORGESMan’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
JORGE LUIS BORGESMy books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhen I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
JORGE LUIS BORGESFrom my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIn Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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 fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIn general, every country has the language it deserves.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
JORGE LUIS BORGESEvery man should be capable of all ideas.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThere is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
JORGE LUIS BORGESAnother school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
JORGE LUIS BORGES