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.

Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

Topics: Solitude Quotes

The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry...

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry...

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

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

I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it...

I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it...

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth...

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth...

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that...

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that...

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

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

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

Man is the measure of all things.

Man is the measure of all things.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose...

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose...

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as...

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as...

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

Life itself is a quotation.

Life itself is a quotation.

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not...

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not...