Jorge Luis Borges
View AuthorLet each man build his own cathedral. Why live off of other people's ancient works of art?
Jorge Luis Borges
View AuthorI am alone and there's no one in the mirror.
Jorge Luis Borges
View AuthorOnly what is gone is what belongs to us.
Jorge Luis Borges
View AuthorFor Argentinians, friendship is a passion and the police a mafia.
Jorge Luis Borges
View AuthorThe 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.
Jorge Luis Borges
View AuthorIn 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.
Jorge Luis Borges
View AuthorLet others boast about the pages they have written; I take pride in the ones I have read.
Jorge Luis Borges
View AuthorWe are our memory, we are that chimeric museum of inconstant forms, that pile of broken mirrors.
Jorge Luis Borges
View AuthorI would like to be brave. My dentist assures me that I am not.
Jorge Luis Borges
View AuthorThere are communists who argue that being anti-communist is being fascist. This is as incomprehensible as saying that not being Catholic is being Mormon.
Jorge Luis Borges
View AuthorYo no bebo, no fumo, no escucho la radio, no me drogo, como poco. Yo diría que mis únicos vicios son El Quijote, La divina comedia y no incurrir en la lectura de Enrique Larreta ni de Benavente
Jorge Luis Borges
View AuthorI think we should invent a game where nobody wins.