Jorge Luis Borges

The world, unfortunately, is real. I, unfortunately, am Borges.

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

If I were to write a history of my literary life, it would be a history of my readings and not of my writings.

I have always been more interested in books than in people.

There is no end to the number of possible worlds.

I have often thought that the world is a dream, and that it will end like a dream.

I have always been a coward. I have never dared to live.

The universe is a library, and its books are infinite.

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

I have always been fascinated by mirrors, because they are a kind of portal to another world.

The greatest joy of my life is to read.

I am a blind man, but I have seen the world.

The universe is a contradiction.

I have always been a solitary man.

I have always been a lover of paradoxes.

I have always believed that the world is a labyrinth.

I have always been a skeptic.

I have always been a fatalist.

I have always been a melancholic.

I have always been a collector of strange things.