There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.
Jorge Luis BorgesTime broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.
Jorge Luis BorgesIf a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his reader to believe it.
Jorge Luis BorgesI think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
Jorge Luis BorgesEmma 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 Borges