Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
Most popular Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Life itself is a quotation.

Rereading, not reading, is what counts.

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

All literature is, finally, autobiographical.

What a writer wants to do is not what he does.

I had always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.

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

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

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

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

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

The night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.

It is known that whistler when asked how long it took him to paint one of his nocturnes answered; 'All of my life'