“Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.”
Source: A Personal Anthology
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Famous Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
“Only in the present do things happen.”
Source: Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
Source: Seven Nights
Source: Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
Source: Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
“Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.”
Source: Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
Source: Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
Source: Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature
“I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done.”
“To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.”
Source: Extraordinary tales
“You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death.”
Source: Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
Source: Dreamtigers
“What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.”
Source: Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations
“What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?”
Source: Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
Source: Everything and Nothing
Source: Seven Nights
Source: Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges
“That is what always happens: we never know whether we are victors or whether we are defeated.”
“If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his reader to believe it.”
“We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.”
Source: Doctor Brodie's Report
“While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one”