Quotes from Jorge Luís Borges

Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.

The time for your labor has been granted.

A labyrinth of symbols... An invisible labyrinth of time.

You can't measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.

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

Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.

This web of time--the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect or ignore eachother through the centuries--embrace every posibility.

Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.

The steps a man takes from the day of his birth until that of his death trace in time an inconcievable figure. The Divine Mind intuitively grasps that form immediately, as men do a triangle.

We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.

Useless to tell myself that a dreamand the memory of yesterday are the same thing

I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

He constructed a vast labyrinthine of periods, made impassable by the piling-up of clauses upon clauses--clauses in which oversight and bad grammar seemed manifestations of disdain.

The time for your labor has been granted.

The image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror.

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.

I have known that thing the Greeks knew not uncertainty.

When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.

I don't speak of revenge or forgiveness; forgetting is the only revenge and the only forgiveness.

I think I understood love better when I had no love.

One is in love when one realizes that the other person is unique.