Jorge Luis Borges: Trending quotes (page 4)

“I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.”

“When you reach my age, you realize you couldn't have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.”

“There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her.”

“Man's memory shapes
Its own Eden within”

“What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?”

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

“We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.”

“I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.”

“The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.”

“i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive.”

“It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.”

“I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.”

“A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships”

“There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.”

“He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.”

“There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.”

“I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.”

“He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.”

“Paradise will be a kind of library”