Jorge Luis Borges

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities that I have visited, all the ancestors that I have had.

I don't know whether I am a man or a dream.

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

Any life, however long and complicated it may be, is made up of a single moment — the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.

I confess that I have no other method than the one I am employing.

Perhaps I am a man of the eighteenth century, living in the twentieth, who dreams of the future.

I have always taken literature to be a form of dreaming.

Everything that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

Happiness is not a right, it is a habit.

I have always been a timid man, but I have always tried to be a brave writer.

Sleep is a good invention, isn't it?

It has been said that the world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.

My greatest fear is not death, but oblivion.

I am not an intellectual. I am a writer.

I have always believed that paradise is a kind of library, but I have never been able to find it.

There are only two plots in the world: the story of the journey and the story of the labyrinth.

The greatest joy of reading is to discover a book that you like.

There is no intellectual pleasure without doubt.

I am not a philosopher. I am a writer of fiction.