Quotes by : Jorge Luis Borges

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

My father and he had cemented (the verb is excessive) one of those English friendships which begin by....

And yet, and yet… Denying temporal succession, denying the self, denying the astronomical universe,....

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

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

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

To think is to ignore the differences, to generalize, to abstract.

A circle drawn on a blackboard, a right triangle, a rhombus--all these are forms we can fully intuit;....

If you sell, say, two thousand copies, it is the same thing as if you had sold nothing at all because....

The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify....