Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

I had always imagined paradise as a kind of library.

Canada is so far away it hardly exists.

While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one; in this way, every man is two men.

We have lavished the ocean on you in vain, In vain the sun that was seen by Whitman’s astounded eyes; You have spent your years and you have spent yourself, But you haven’t written the poem yet.

It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.

The meta physicians of Tlon do not seek for the truth or even for verisimilitude, but rather for the astounding. They judge that metaphysics is a branch of fantastic literature.