Jorge Luis Borges
View AuthorI have always felt that there is something about Buenos Aires that I like. I like it so much that I don't like it when other people like it. It's a jealous kind of love.
Jorge Luis Borges
View AuthorThey say I am a great writer. I appreciate that curious opinion, but I do not share it. Tomorrow, some bright individuals will easily refute it and label me as an impostor or a hack, or both at once.
Jorge Luis Borges
View AuthorHell and paradise seem disproportionate to me. The actions of men do not deserve so much.
Jorge Luis Borges
View AuthorLiterature is nothing more than a directed dream.
Jorge Luis Borges
View AuthorMay heaven exist, even if our place is hell.
Jorge Luis Borges
View AuthorThe theme of envy is very Spanish. Spaniards are always thinking about envy. To say that something is good, they say: 'It's enviable'.
Jorge Luis Borges
View AuthorDemocracy: it is a widely held superstition, an abuse of statistics.
Jorge Luis Borges
View AuthorThe happiness does not need to be transmuted into beauty, but the misfortune does.
Jorge Luis Borges
View AuthorI believe it's better to think that God does not accept bribes.
Jorge Luis Borges
View AuthorDreaming is the oldest aesthetic activity.
Jorge Luis Borges
View AuthorOrganizing libraries is silently practicing the art of criticism.
Jorge Luis Borges
View AuthorI have not cultivated my fame, which will be ephemeral.