Quotes Jorge Luis Borges

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which ...

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not...

Democracy is an abuse of statistics....

Every writer "creates" his own precursors. His work modifies...

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the nig...

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abomi...

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of libra...

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks....

In general, every country has the language it deserves....

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act th...

Life and death have been lacking in my life....

Life itself is a quotation....

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that...

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by ...

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only ...

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must...

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speak...

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a wri...

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned,...

Reality is not always probable, or likely....

The central problem of novel-writing is causality....

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their ...

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

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contem...

The original is unfaithful to the translation....