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

- Jorge Luis Borges

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

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

- Jorge Luis Borges

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

The central problem of novel-writing is causality.

- Jorge Luis Borges

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

- Jorge Luis Borges

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

- Jorge Luis Borges

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

- 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 flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

- 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

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

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

- Jorge Luis Borges

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

- Jorge Luis Borges

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

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

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

- Jorge Luis Borges

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

- Jorge Luis Borges

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