Top 31 Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges

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

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

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.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

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

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.