01UndatedUnappreciated because too many of his [Rudyard Kipling's] peers were socialists.Jorge Luis Borges / quote ↗
02UndatedI think—the hero observes that nothing is so frightening as a labyrinth with no center.Jorge Luis Borges / quote ↗
03UndatedIt also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.Jorge Luis Borges / quote ↗
04UndatedNovels include padding; I think padding may be an essential part of the novel, for all I know.Jorge Luis Borges / quote ↗
06UndatedI believe the secret of the success of psychoanalysis resides in people's vanity.Jorge Luis Borges / quote ↗
07UndatedTo be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.Jorge Luis Borges / quote ↗
09UndatedTime 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.Jorge Luis Borges / quote ↗
11UndatedAny life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.Jorge Luis Borges / quote ↗
12UndatedPoetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.Jorge Luis Borges / quote ↗
13UndatedThe fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.Jorge Luis Borges / quote ↗
