Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges

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

Let each one build their own cathedral. Why live from alien and ancient works of art?

Life itself is a quotation.

Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.

The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries, with vast air shafts between, surrounded by very low railings.

If the pages of this book contain some successful verse, the reader must excuse me the discourtesy of having usurped it first. Our nothingness differs little; it is a trivial and chance circumstance that you should be the reader of these exercises and I their author.