The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
-
-
To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
Death is just infinity closing in.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
Each thing implies the universe.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
He 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 BORGES -
We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
A 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 BORGES -
When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
I have always come to life after coming to books.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
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 BORGES -
I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
JORGE LUIS BORGES -
What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
JORGE LUIS BORGES