Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face.

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.