Jorge Luis Borges

The original is unfaithful to the translation. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#translation #unfaithful

No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#men

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#built #must #nothing #sand #stone

¿De qué otra forma se puede amenazar que no sea de muerte? Lo interesante, lo original, sería que alguien lo amenace a uno con la inmortalidad. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#muerte #originality

He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#reality #writing #art

There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#love #woman #love

I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#government #anarchism

It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#life

He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#piety #religion #religion

It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#united-states #ussr #united-states