Jorge Luis Borges's Quotes

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Jorge Luis Borges

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

Jorge Luis Borges

To 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

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

Jorge Luis Borges

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

Jorge Luis Borges

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

Jorge Luis Borges

Any 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