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

Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

Topics: Love Quotes, Religion Quotes

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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.

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...

Life itself is a quotation.

Life itself is a quotation.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

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

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

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 be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are...

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are...

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...

Man is the measure of all things.

Man is the measure of all things.

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...

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

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

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.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

In general, every country has the language it deserves.