Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers. Jorge Luis Borges More Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges More Quotes From Jorge Luis Borges So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. Jorge Luis Borges motivationalbirthdayinspirational Don't talk unless you can improve the silence. Jorge Luis Borges communicationleadershipinspirational Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time. Jorge Luis Borges timelovelife I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited. Jorge Luis Borges citieslifepeople All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. Jorge Luis Borges shapesmayart In my next life I will try to commit more errors. Jorge Luis Borges nexterrorstrying The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream. Jorge Luis Borges minddreamworld The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line Jorge Luis Borges labyrinthforeverinspirational Doubt is one of the names of intelligence. Jorge Luis Borges doubtnames I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat. Jorge Luis Borges lonelinessheartinspirational I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books. Jorge Luis Borges readingsleepbook The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps. Jorge Luis Borges gapsinevitablemay The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book. Jorge Luis Borges librarydiscoverybook Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind. Jorge Luis Borges penetratetruthmind A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the right reader comes along, and the words—or rather the poetry behind the words, for the words themselves are mere symbols—spring to life, and we have a resurrection of the word. Jorge Luis Borges springbookworld Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. Jorge Luis Borges firetimelife Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is. Jorge Luis Borges forevermenlong What you really value is what you miss, not what you have. Jorge Luis Borges valuesexperiencemissing From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me. Jorge Luis Borges leftweaknesshealing There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music. Jorge Luis Borges coloreyeyellow
