Quote by

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

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

Related Quotes:

  1. I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books. – Jorge Luis Borges
  2. When a writer dies, he becomes his books. – Jorge Luis Borges
  3. Paradise will be a kind of library – Jorge Luis Borges
  4. In my soul the afternoon grows wider and I reflect. – Jorge Luis Borges
  5. Reading . . . is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. – Jorge Luis Borges
  6. Historical truth, for him, is not what has happened; it is what we judge to have happened. – Jorge Luis Borges
  7. We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe. – Jorge Luis Borges
  8. Reality is not always probable, or likely. – Jorge Luis Borges
  9. Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality. – Jorge Luis Borges
  10. From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me. – Jorge Luis Borges
  11. Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. – Jorge Luis Borges
  12. Blind to all fault, destiny can be ruthless at one’s slightest distraction. – Jorge Luis Borges
  13. The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps. – Jorge Luis Borges
  14. Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. In one of them I am your enemy. – Jorge Luis Borges
  15. Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. – Jorge Luis Borges
  16. The metaphysicians of Tl̦n are not looking for truth, nor even for an approximation of it; they are after a kind of amazement. РJorge Luis Borges
  17. I’ve fixed my feelings into durable wordswhen they could have been spent on tenderness – Jorge Luis Borges
  18. I cannot lament the loss of a love or a friendship without meditating that one loses only what one really never had. – Jorge Luis Borges
  19. All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them. – Jorge Luis Borges
  20. Useless to tell myself that a dreamand the memory of yesterday are the same thing – Jorge Luis Borges
  21. Man’s memory shapesIts own Eden within – Jorge Luis Borges
  22. We are our memory,we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes,that pile of broken mirrors. – Jorge Luis Borges
  23. We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it. – Jorge Luis Borges
  24. I’m alone and nobody is in the mirror – Jorge Luis Borges
  25. I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes. – Jorge Luis Borges
  26. I do not know which of us has written this page. – Jorge Luis Borges
  27. Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark. – Jorge Luis Borges
  28. Lost in these imaginary illusions I forgot my destiny -“ that of the hunted. – Jorge Luis Borges
  29. It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death. – Jorge Luis Borges
  30. There is nothing but quotations left for us. Our language is a system of quotations. – Jorge Luis Borges
  31. To think is to ignore the differences, to generalize, to abstract. – Jorge Luis Borges
  32. The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries. – Jorge Luis Borges
  33. I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government. – Jorge Luis Borges
  34. There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her. – Jorge Luis Borges
  35. There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others.I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite. – Jorge Luis Borges
  36. The story of two dreams is a coincidence, a line drawn by chance, like the shapes of lions or horses that are sometimes formed by clouds. – Jorge Luis Borges
  37. The image of the Lord has been replaced by a mirror. – Jorge Luis Borges
  38. I came to abominate my body, I came to sense that two eyes, two hands, two lungs are as monstrous as two faces. – Jorge Luis Borges
  39. We must not be too prodigal with our angels; they are the last divinities we harbor, and they might fly away. – Jorge Luis Borges
  40. Art is fire plus algebra. – Jorge Luis Borges

More Quotes

, , , , , ,