Jorge Luis Borges

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

Reality is not always probable, or necessary.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and people. A short time before he dies, he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is the image of his face.

I have committed the worst sin of all: I have not been happy.

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

Perhaps I am destined to remember forever the image of that night, the flavor of the tobacco, the vague physical sensation of fear.

I always say that I am not a writer but a reader. I am a reader who writes. I read a lot, and I write very little. And I read everything.

There is no exercise for the heart but the exercise of love.

Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps 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.

I can do nothing to change the past, but I can do a great deal to change the future.

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 oneself immortal.

Every man should be capable of all ideas and I believe that in the future he will be.

There are people who don't exist in my memory.

I have always believed that the most important thing for a writer is to be a reader.

The future is inevitable.

I am a man who has been many men.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

There is no more to say, no more to write. This is the end.

One day, we'll wake up and we'll be old. And we'll be happy, or we'll be sad, or we'll be dead. But we'll be old.