Jorge Luis Borges

"To live is to be someone else."

"The universe has some kind of meaning, if not, we have at least the freedom to imagine one."

"One does not inherit traditions; one carries on."

"I have committed a sin by telling the truth."

"The act of reading is a political act."

"I believe that our happiness is of little importance unless we can relate it somehow to some other people's happiness."

"The work of a writer is to render the infinite finite."

"Memory shapes us all, through the mysterious ways in which it defines us."

"I have very little faith in any institutions."

"Every time a book is finished, the author becomes anonymous."

"We are both the same: neither of us had the certainty of what we were."

"A man is something more than a map or a statistic."

"I have never been able to understand my contemporaries."

"The act of naming is to become a poet."

"I am absolutely opposed to any machine."

"There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others - not as an opinion but as a metaphor."

"I do not know which of all my selves is writing now."

"The day we cease to hope is the day we cease to live."

"To think is to forget differences, to generalize, to abstract."

"I have always believed that everything that happens has a reason."

"There is nothing more important than to be sure of one's own truth."

"Beauty is that mystery breathed into things by a beauty we cannot know."

"I am perhaps weary of being a man."

"Immortality is not an invention of the human imagination."

"The reader is as important as the writer."

"We are not sustained by faith in salvation but by love of the world."

"Every interpretation of a work is itself a work."

"The past is only a visible reminder of what we have forgotten."

"I have devoted my life to the pursuit of being."

"All knowledge is love and all love is knowledge."