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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone - Jorge Borges Quotes

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

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

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

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety. - Jorge Borges Quotes

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

Every writer ''creates'' his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future. - Jorge Borges Quotes

Every writer ''creates'' his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

Future Writers And Writing

The original is unfaithful to the translation. - Jorge Borges Quotes

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

...the image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror. - Jorge Borges Quotes

...the image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror.

Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face. - Jorge Borges Quotes

Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face.

Man

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out. - Jorge Borges Quotes

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.

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 Borges Quotes

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.

Night

I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death.... Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body? - Jorge Borges Quotes

I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death.... Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?

Everything Is Illuminated - Jorge Borges Quotes

Everything Is Illuminated

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. - Jorge Borges Quotes

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

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal. - Jorge Borges Quotes

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.

Death

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream. - Jorge Borges Quotes

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. - Jorge Borges Quotes

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

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Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is. - Jorge Borges Quotes

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

Reality is not always probable, or likely. - Jorge Borges Quotes

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

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 Borges Quotes

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.

Time And Time Management

The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb. - Jorge Borges Quotes

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

Men

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely. - Jorge Borges Quotes

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

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks. - Jorge Borges Quotes

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

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things. - Jorge Borges Quotes

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.

Procrastination Truth

Life itself is a quotation. - Jorge Borges Quotes

Life itself is a quotation.

Democracy is an abuse of statistics. - Jorge Borges Quotes

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor - Jorge Borges Quotes

Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor

Sin

Death (or its allusion) makes men precious and pathetic. They are moving because of their phantom condition; every act they execute may be their last; there is not a face that is not on the verge of dissolving like a face in a dream. - Jorge Borges Quotes

Death (or its allusion) makes men precious and pathetic. They are moving because of their phantom condition; every act they execute may be their last; there is not a face that is not on the verge of dissolving like a face in a dream.

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite. - Jorge Borges Quotes

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. - Jorge Borges Quotes

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

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned. - Jorge Borges Quotes

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.

Writers And Writing

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read. - Jorge Borges Quotes

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.

In general, every country has the language it deserves. - Jorge Borges Quotes

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. - Jorge Borges Quotes

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

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