Quotes by Borges, Jorge Luis

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

Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our concept >>

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary fla >>

Quotations about Night

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o clock is a scoundrel. >>

Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The >>

Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; t >>

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.

Borges, Jorge Luis