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“Fame is a form, perhaps the worst form, of incomprehension.”

Jorge Luis Borges book Ficciones

Source: Ficciones

“From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.”

Jorge Luis Borges book Ficciones

Source: Ficciones

“Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically dessicated and preserved.”

Jorge Luis Borges Dreamtigers

Source: Dreamtigers

“It only takes two facing mirrors to build a labyrinth.”

Jorge Luis Borges

“The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.”

Jorge Luis Borges

“To think, analyze and invent are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence.”

Jorge Luis Borges book Ficciones

Source: Ficciones

“We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.”

Jorge Luis Borges

Source: The Book of Imaginary Beings

“Like every writer, he measured the virtues of other writers by their performance, and asked that they measure him by what he conjectured or planned.”

Jorge Luis Borges book Ficciones

"The Secret Miracle"; Variant: 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.
Source: Ficciones (1944)

“I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me…”

Jorge Luis Borges

Source: The Aleph and Other Stories

“He consorted with prostitutes and poets… and with persons even worse.”

Jorge Luis Borges

Source: Collected Fictions

“The years go by, and I've told the story so many times that I'm not sure anymore whether I actually remember it or whether I just remember the words I tell it with.”

Jorge Luis Borges

Source: The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory

“With relief, with humiliation, with terror, he understood that he too was a mere appearance, dreamt by another.”

Jorge Luis Borges

Source: Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings

“I reflected that everything happens to a man precisely, precisely now. Centuries of centuries and only in the present do things happen; countless men in the air, on the face of the earth and the sea, and all that really is happening is happening to me...”

Jorge Luis Borges

The Garden of Forking Paths (1942), The Garden of Forking Paths
Source: Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings