Explore Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges

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

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

Life itself is a quotation.

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

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

The steps a man takes from the day of his birth until that of his death trace in time an inconcievable figure. The Divine Mind intuitively grasps that form immediately, as men do a triangle.

Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.

The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.

All literature, is, finally autobiographical.

The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.

There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.

My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read.

Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.

All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.

Only in the present do things happen.

Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.

Censorship is the mother of metaphor.

In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.

Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.

Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.