Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.

A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.

I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.

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.

If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.

When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.

There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.

We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.