Quotes from borges jorge luis iii

The reader accepts anything, no? Even the starkest nonsense.

Every man should be capable of all ideas and I understand that in the future this will be the case.

One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.

We can suspect that there is no universe in the organic, unifying sense, that this ambitious term has. If there is a universe, its aim is not conjectured yet; we have not yet conjectured the words, the definitions, the etymologies, the synonyms, from the secret dictionary of God.

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.