11 beautiful quotes by Jorge Luis Borges. Click any quote to view, download and share it as an image.
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Jorge Luis Borges
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
“Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.”
“A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reade...
“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the wo...
“A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All th...
“Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. T...
“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
“You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, ...
“I...have always known that my destiny was, above all, a literary destiny — that bad things and some good things would h...
“Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.”
“When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation."[As attributed by Alastair Reid in...
