Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges

“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.”

“Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.”

“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.”

“To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.”

“Democracy is an abuse of statistics.”

“...the image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror.”

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

“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.”

“Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face.”

“Life itself is a quotation.”

“Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.”

“Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.”

“Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.”

“Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone”

“Reality is not always probable, or likely.”

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

“Dont worry about failure. Worry about the chances you miss when you dont even try.”

“We feed on genius; great men exist that there might be greater men.”

“Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.”

“Tell me what brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.”