Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.

I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.

Death is just infinity closing in.

A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.

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.

Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.

The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.