Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

The vast ineptitude of his pretense would be a convincing proof that this was no fraud.

He cometido el peor pecado que uno puede cometer. No he sido feliz.

That history should have imitated history was already sufficiently marvellous; that history should imitate literature is inconceivable....

The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to construct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the others like a Platonic archetype, an object whose virtues are not diminished by the passage of time.

Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination will reject it.

It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.

Cabe ir más lejos; cabe sospechar que no hay universo en el sentido orgánico, unificador, que tiene esa ambiciosa palabra. Si lo hay, falta conjeturar su propósito; falta conjeturar las palabras, las definiciones, las etimologías, las sinonimias, del secreto diccionario de Dios.

La duda es uno de los nombres de la inteligencia.

If the pages of this book contain some successful verse, the reader must excuse me the discourtesy of having usurped it first. Our nothingness differs little; it is a trivial and chance circumstance that you should be the reader of these exercises and I their author.

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

Time can't be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.

Universal history is the history of a few metaphors.

He measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.

Tu ausencia me rodea
como la cuerda a la garganta,
el mar al que se hunde.

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.