Jorge Luis Borges Quotes


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


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


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


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


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 Luis Borges


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 Luis Borges


There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite. - Jorge Luis Borges


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 Luis Borges


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


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


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