That is what always happens: we never know whether we are victors or whether we are defeated. Jorge Luis Borges More Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges More Quotes From Jorge Luis Borges i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive Jorge Luis Borges far-awaywalks Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on me and treating me badly. Jorge Luis Borges tricksfoolcharacter I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government. Jorge Luis Borges i-believegovernmentbelieve Life itself is a quotation. Jorge Luis Borges inspirationallifebook If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time. Jorge Luis Borges infinitespacemay La duda es uno de los nombres de la inteligencia. Jorge Luis Borges doubt There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music. Jorge Luis Borges vergeafternoonhours Everything touches everything. Jorge Luis Borges There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one. Jorge Luis Borges labyrinthuniverseneeds How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives? Jorge Luis Borges pathosour-livesmanage I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left... Jorge Luis Borges soldiermennew-day Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. Jorge Luis Borges forkstime In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others. Jorge Luis Borges alternativesmenfiction A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer - to be living a kind of double life. Jorge Luis Borges dreamerlonelinesswriting Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird's cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world. Jorge Luis Borges eyemoonhands No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry. Jorge Luis Borges twelveeighttwo Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits. Jorge Luis Borges lonelinessdoeworry Days and nights passed over this despair of flesh, but one morning he awoke, looked (with calm now) at the blurred things that lay about him, and felt, inexplicably, the way one might feel upon recognizing a melody or a voice, that all this had happened to him before and that he had faced it with fear but also with joy and hopefulness and curiosity. Then he descended into his memory, which seemed to him endless, and managed to draw up from that vertigo the lost remembrance that gleamed like a coin in the rain - perhaps because he had never really looked at it except (perhaps) in a dream. Jorge Luis Borges dreammorningmemories When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation. Jorge Luis Borges incarnationdiesbook To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely. Jorge Luis Borges easierdiesreligion
