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

Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

Topics: Immortality Quotes

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

Death (or its allusion) makes men precious and pathetic. They are moving because of their...

Death (or its allusion) makes men precious and pathetic. They are moving because of their...

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.

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...

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

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...

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...

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

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

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

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

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

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries...

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries...

There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak...

There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak...

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...

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man...

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man...

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

The central problem of novel-writing is causality.

The central problem of novel-writing is causality.

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...

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.