Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Jorge Luis Borges Quote

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

Nothing, Build, Stone

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

Imagination, Library, Paradise

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

Love, Religion, God

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

Time, Fire, Made

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 Luis Borges

Thinking, Night, Through

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 Luis Borges

Life, Single, Made

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

Men, Truth, Live

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

Country, Language, General

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 Luis Borges

Evil, Others, Ethics

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

Religion, Live, Die

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
Jorge Luis Borges

Government, Democracy, Abuse

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

Himself, Soldiers, Left

Life itself is a quotation.
Jorge Luis Borges

Life, Quotation

Reality is not always probable, or likely.
Jorge Luis Borges

Reality, Likely, Probable

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

Art, Poetry, Before

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.
Jorge Luis Borges

Art, Individual, Concrete

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 Luis Borges

Him, Others, Writers

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

Difficult, Carry, Immortal

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
Jorge Luis Borges

Writing, Reading, Activity

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

Nothing, Worth, Flattery

The original is unfaithful to the translation.
Jorge Luis Borges

Unfaithful, Original

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

State, Known, Unknown

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.
Jorge Luis Borges

Others, Act, Order

Life and death have been lacking in my life.
Jorge Luis Borges

Life, Death, Lacking

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

Guilty, Knowing, Library

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Biography

Nationality: Argentinian

Type: Poet

Born: August 24, 1899

Died: June 14, 1986

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