Jorge Luis Borges

More from Jorge Luis Borges

• 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)

  • Love
  • Time

• Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you’re writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader’s imagination will reject it.

  Discussion published in the Columbia Forum and later quoted in Worldwide Laws of Life: 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles (1998) by John Templeton

  • Writing

• Fame is a form⁠—perhaps the worst form⁠—of incomprehension.

  “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote”

  • Fame

All 23 quotes from Jorge Luis Borges

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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