Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.

One is not what one is because of what one writes, but because of what one has read.

Let each man build his own cathedral. Why live off of other people's ancient works of art?

I am alone and there's no one in the mirror.

Only what is gone is what belongs to us.

For Argentinians, friendship is a passion and the police a mafia.

The university should insist on what is old and foreign to us. If it insists on what is its own and contemporary, the university is useless, because it is expanding a function that the press already fulfills.

In what other way can one be threatened if not with death? The interesting, the original, would be if someone were to threaten one with immortality.

Let others boast about the pages they have written; I take pride in the ones I have read.

We are our memory, we are that chimeric museum of inconstant forms, that pile of broken mirrors.

I would like to be brave. My dentist assures me that I am not.

There are communists who argue that being anti-communist is being fascist. This is as incomprehensible as saying that not being Catholic is being Mormon.