Jorge Luis Borges

"There are no shared emotions, only similarities."

"To name something is to accept it."

"I have never been able to take the world entirely seriously."

"The act of writing is to become eternal."

"I am a citizen of the world; I belong to no particular place."

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

"The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries."

"Writing is nothing more than a guided dream."

"We are our memory, we are our confused, muddled past."

"The more one reads, the less one understands."

"Any life is made up of a single moment: the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is."

"I have always thought that the idea of a labyrinth refers to something that is irreducibly complex."

"Blindness is a confinement, but it is also a liberation."

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

"Eternity is perhaps the better name for what we call time."

"Poetry is not forbidden. It is merely unfashionable."

"I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books."

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one."

"The habit of reading is the only thing that can save us."

"We are all corrupted by something; for me it has been books."

"Memory is the most magical of faculties."

"There is a concept that corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited domain is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite."

"To be human is to be suspended between the finite and the infinite."

"Each moment of our lives contains all possible meanings."

"The act of reading is mysterious; it is a miracle of communication."

"I think of myself as a reader first, a writer second."

"Conventional optimism is odious; let us be pessimists."

"Language is a selection of images to express reality."

"To undertake the history of literature is to undertake the history of humanity."

"The feeling of loneliness is not a defect but a condition of being human."