Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Most popular Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Life itself is a quotation. - Jorge Luis Borges quote.
Life itself is a quotation.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Rereading, not reading, is what counts. - Jorge Luis Borges quote.
Rereading, not reading, is what counts.
— Jorge Luis Borges

reading re-reading

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream. - Jorge Luis Borges quote.
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
— Jorge Luis Borges Doctor Brodie’s Report

writing

All literature is, finally, autobiographical. - Jorge Luis Borges quote.
All literature is, finally, autobiographical.
— Jorge Luis Borges The Man in the Mirror of the Book

literature

What a writer wants to do is not what he does. - Jorge Luis Borges quote.
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
— Jorge Luis Borges

writing

I had always imagined Paradise as a kind of library. - Jorge Luis Borges quote.
I had always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.
— Jorge Luis Borges Seven Nights

libraries

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

religion

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

libraries

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. - Jorge Luis Borges quote.
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
— Jorge Luis Borges Other Inquisitions

love

The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb. - Jorge Luis Borges quote.
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
— Jorge Luis Borges in Time
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time. - Jorge Luis Borges quote.
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
— Jorge Luis Borges

romantic

The night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does. - Jorge Luis Borges quote.
The night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
— Jorge Luis Borges Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation. - Jorge Luis Borges quote.
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
— Jorge Luis Borges in The New Yorker

books

It is known that whistler when asked how long it took him to paint one of his nocturnes answered; 'All of my life' - Jorge Luis Borges quote.
It is known that whistler when asked how long it took him to paint one of his nocturnes answered; 'All of my life'