Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

One is in love when one realizes that another person is unique.

I do not speak of revenges nor forgiveness, forgetting is the only revenge and the only forgiveness.

I always imagined that Paradise would be some kind of library.

I have committed the worst sin one can commit. I have not been happy.

Death is a lived life. Life is a coming death.

Beauty is that beautiful mystery that neither psychology nor rhetoric can decipher.

All theories are legitimate and none of them are important. What matters is what you do with them.

Before, distances were greater because space is measured by time.

Those who say that art should not propagate doctrines usually refer to doctrines contrary to theirs.

Time is the substance I am made of.

If I am rich in something, it is in perplexities and not certainties.

There are defeats that have more dignity than victory.