Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Time is a river which carries me along but I am the river.

Jorge luis borges quotes What is divine terrible incomprehensible is. Nothing is built on stone. Jorge Luis Borges.

As quoted in Diccionario privado de Jorge Luis Borges 1979 edited by Blas Matamoro. Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges KBE ˈbɔrhɛs. Top quotes by Jorge Luis Borges When writers die they become books which is after all not too bad an incarnationAs attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges The New Yorker June 24 1996.

Except for man all creatures are immortal for they are ignorant of death. It is a tiger that devours me but I am the tiger. Dont talk unless you can improve the silence.

To be immortal is commonplace. As I think of the many myths there is one that is very harmful and that is the myth of countries. Time is the substance from which I am made.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. 24 August 1899 14 June 1986 was an Argentinian short-story writer essayist poet and translator and a key figure in Spanish language. Jorge Luis Borges 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.

It is a fire that consumes me but I am the fire. The speaker is far more interested in the cat than the cat is in him. Millions long for immortality who dont know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.