Jorge Luis Borges

I have always been a man of letters.

I have always been a wanderer.

I have always been a man of many contradictions.

I have always been a man of imagination.

I have committed the worst sin that can be committed... I have not been happy.

The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.

Reality favors symmetries and slight anachronisms.

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.

The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.

Mirrors and copulation are abominable, for they multiply the numbers of men.

I am not a thinker. I am merely a man who has been perplexed.

A book is more than a verbal structure... it is the dialogue with the reader, and the tone of his voice, and the accent he gives it.

The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library... Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book.

I have known what the Greeks did not: uncertainty.

Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger.

The taste of the apple... lies in the contact of the fruit with the palate, not in the fruit itself.

I have always come to life after coming to books.

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody.

I am not sure that I am a person; I am perhaps a series of impressions and memories.