Emma dropped the paper. Her first impression was of a weak feeling in her stomach and in her knees; then of blind guilt, of unreality, of coldness, of fear; then she wished that it were already the next day. Immediately afterwards she realized that that wish was futile because the death of her father was the only thing that had happened in the world, and it would go on happening endlessly.
Jorge Luis BorgesI think it's all to the good that a writer shouldn't be too famous. Because, in a country where a writer may be famous, he may be pandering to the mob, celebrity and so on.
Jorge Luis BorgesAs the end approaches, there are no longer any images from memory - there are only words.
Jorge Luis BorgesThe mathematical sciences wield their particular language made of digits and signs, no less subtle than any other.
Jorge Luis BorgesHeaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
Jorge Luis BorgesWe (the indivisible divinity that works in us) have dreamed the world. We have dreamed it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in space and firm in time, but we have allowed slight, and eternal, bits of the irrational to form part of its architecture so as to know that it is false.
Jorge Luis Borges