Quotes from Jorge Luís Borges

I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death?

It seemed incredible to me that day without premonitions or symbols should be the one of my inexorable death .

Death is just infinity closing in.

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.", The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarna

You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death.

What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.

My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read.

My father and he had cemented one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.

Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.