The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. Jorge Luis Borges
The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future. Jorge Luis Borges
The central problem of novel-writing is causality. Jorge Luis Borges
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things. Jorge Luis Borges
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary. Jorge Luis Borges
Life itself is a quotation. Jorge Luis Borges
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. Jorge Luis Borges
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. Jorge Luis Borges