The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.
Jorge Luis Borges

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

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

The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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

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

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

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

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

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

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