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Let others pride themselves a...

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

For me, beauty is a physical ...

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 386 quotes

I can give you my loneliness,...

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

The tango is a direct express...

The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

There is nothing in the world...

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.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

The flattery of posterity is ...

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

Art always opts for the indiv...

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

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

Nothing is built on stone; al...

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

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

The fact is that all writers ...

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

I foresee that man will resig...

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

I have known uncertainty: a s...

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

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

There is a concept that is th...

There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

Time is the substance from wh...

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.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

I cannot walk through the sub...

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.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

When I wake up, I wake to som...

When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

The original is unfaithful to...

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

To fall in love is to create ...

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

I have always imagined that P...

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

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

Reality is not always probabl...

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

In the order of literature, a...

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.

Jorge Luis Borges 386 quotes

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