Quotes by : Jorge Luis Borges

I do not know whether music knows how to despair over music, or marble over marble, but literature is....

A writer always begins by being too complicated—he’s playing at several games at once.

We are our memory,we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes,that pile of broken mirrors.

Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them,....

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past,....

It must be that I am not made to be a dead man, but these places and this discussion seem like a dream,....

Learning After some time, you learn the subtle difference betweenholding a handand imprisoning a soul;You....

One of the schools of Tlön goes so far as to negate time; it reasons that the present is indefinite,....

Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.

We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.