Jorge Luis Borges1899–1986The quotations of
Jorge Luis Borges
Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator
1899–1986
23 quotes, most often on Time, Philosophy and Writing.
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
“The Threatened”, The Book of Sand [El Libro de arena] (1975)- Discussion published in the Columbia Forum and later quoted in Worldwide Laws of Life: 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles (1998) by John Templeton
- “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote”
- Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (1940)
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
“Ibn-Hakim Al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrinth”, in The Aleph (1949); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
Other Inquisitions (1952)The mightiest love was granted him
Love that does not expect to be loved.“Baruch Spinoza”, as translated in Spinoza and Other Heretics: The Marrano of Reason (1989) by Yirmiyahu Yovel- “A Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz”, in The Aleph (1949); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)
- The Garden of Forking Paths
- “Juan Muraña”, in Brodie’s Report (1970); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)
- The Analytical Language of John Wilkins
- “The Immortal” (1949)
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
On the Falklands War, as quoted in Time magazine (14 February 1983)- Statement to the Argentine Society of Letters (c.1946)
- “The Library of Babel” (1941)
