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.

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

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

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

Life itself is a quotation.

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.

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.