Short Quotes - Author Jorge Luis Borges Showing 1 - 31 of 31 Add Quote My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out. Jorge Luis Borges Upvote0 Life and death have been lacking in my life. Jorge Luis Borges Death Upvote0 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 Ethics Upvote0 Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety. Jorge Luis Borges Upvote0 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 Measure Upvote0 Life itself is a quotation. Jorge Luis Borges Life Upvote0 Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. Jorge Luis Borges Nothing Upvote0 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 Act Upvote0 I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks. Jorge Luis Borges State Upvote0 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 Day Upvote0 Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic. Jorge Luis Borges Art Upvote0 Democracy is an abuse of statistics. Jorge Luis Borges Abuse Upvote0 Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. Jorge Luis Borges Art Upvote0 Writing is nothing more than a guided dream. Jorge Luis Borges Dream Upvote0 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 Memory Upvote0 Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. Jorge Luis Borges Reading Upvote0 The central problem of novel-writing is causality. Jorge Luis Borges Upvote0 Reality is not always probable, or likely. Jorge Luis Borges Reality Upvote0 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 Work Upvote0 The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb. Jorge Luis Borges Men Upvote0 The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. Jorge Luis Borges Flattery Upvote0 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 Upvote0 The original is unfaithful to the translation. Jorge Luis Borges Upvote0 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 Ethics Upvote0 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 Upvote0 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 Death Upvote0 To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. Jorge Luis Borges Love Upvote0 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 Upvote0 I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. Jorge Luis Borges Paradise Upvote0 To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely. Jorge Luis Borges Religion Upvote0 In general, every country has the language it deserves. Jorge Luis Borges Country Upvote0