Borges Quotes

I owe my first inkling of the problem of infinity to a large biscuit tin that was a source of vertig...

The story of two dreams is a coincidence, a line drawn by chance, like the shapes of lions or horses...

I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done.

A writer always begins by being too complicated—he’s playing at several games at once.

The three of them knew it. She was Kafka’s mistress. Kafka had dreamt her. The three of them knew it...

Things, events, that occupy space yet come to an end when someone dies make us stop in wonder - and ...

It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost...

The gods weave misfortunes for men, so that the generations to come will have something to sing abou...

I cannot combine some charactersdhcmrlchtdjwhich the divine Library has not foreseen and which in on...

The metaphysicians of Tlön are not looking for truth, nor even for an approximation of it; they are ...

This book first arose out of a passage in Borges, out of the laughter that shattered, as I read the ...

As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granari...

Borges is particularly stimulating to a man who works in the cinema, because the unusual thing about...