Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

No one is the homeland, we all are.

Universal History is that of a single man.

I have signed so many copies of my books that the day I die, one without my signature will have great value.

Time is the best anthologist, or the only one, perhaps.

Biographies: They are the exercise of minutiae, an absurdity. Some consist exclusively of changes of residence.

Happy are the brave, those who accept defeat or applause with an even spirit.

The verb to read, like the verb to love and the verb to dream, does not support 'the imperative mood'.

Any destiny, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment: the moment when a person forever knows who they are.

Always is a word that is not allowed for men.

Thank you for the music, mysterious form of time.

We all walk towards anonymity, it's just that the mediocre arrive a little earlier.

Of the various instruments invented by man, the most astonishing is the book; all others are extensions of his body... Only the book is an extension of the imagination and memory.