22 Quotations by Jorge Luis Borges
- 1. Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who h ...
- 2. Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in wh ...
- 3. Every writer "creates" his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will ...
- 4. I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleas ...
- 5. I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
- 6. Life itself is a quotation.
- 7. Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its ...
- 8. Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of th ...
- 9. Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A boo ...
- 10. My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventua ...
- 11. One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ...
- 12. The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
- 13. The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
- 14. The original is unfaithful to the translation.
- 15. The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know dee ...
- 16. There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is ...
- 17. Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, ...
- 18. Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the riv ...
- 19. To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
- 20. To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
Jorge Luis Borges Quotes by Power Quotations
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