Jorge Luis Borges

"Philosophy is the art of being confused at a higher level."

"Literature survives because it tells truths that facts cannot."

"The greatest library is the one we carry in memory."

"Success is the conversion of doubt into understanding."

"Friendship is the only democracy that truly works."

"Family is the accident we choose to make meaning from."

"Hope is the only thing louder than despair."

"Courage is fear that has said its prayers."

"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."

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

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

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

"I have always felt that the effort to imagine Shakespeare is as important as Shakespeare himself."

"Every man is two men: the man he is and the man he could have been."

"Eternity is something that begins after death, but it might also be happening right now."

"One concept corrupts and confuses all others. I am not speaking of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I am speaking of the Infinite."

"The taste of the apple lies in the contact of the fruit with the palate, not in the fruit itself."

"Literature is not exhausted by each reading; rather, it grows richer."

"If I were to write about myself, I would do so without shame."

"Blindness has allowed me to concentrate on the music and philosophy of language itself."

"The act of reading is essentially an act of creation."

"A book is not an isolated entity; it is a node in an infinite network of relationships."

"I believe the idea that all people are free is the foundation of democracy."

"Time is a river of fleeting moments, and we are condemned to experience it."

"What is the Argentine except a European in American space?"

"Perfection is not just about control. It is also about letting go."

"The moment one learns English, complications set in."

"Music is a type of mathematics and language at once."