Quotes by : Jorge Luis Borges

But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and....

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read....

I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done.

Historical truth, for him, is not what has happened; it is what we judge to have happened.

There are objects made up of two sense elements, one visual, the other auditory—the colour of a sunrise....

Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience....

The story of two dreams is a coincidence, a line drawn by chance, like the shapes of lions or horses....

The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of....

The library will endure; it is the universe. As for us, everything has not been written; we are not turning....

Unappreciated because too many of his [Rudyard Kipling's] peers were socialists.