Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

I believe the secret of the success of psychoanalysis resides in people's vanity.

What you really value is what you miss not what you have.

Novels include padding; I think padding may be an essential part of the novel, for all I know.

It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.

I think—the hero observes that nothing is so frightening as a labyrinth with no center.

Unappreciated because too many of his [Rudyard Kipling's] peers were socialists.

Little did they suspect that the years would end by wearing away the disharmony.Little did they suspect that La Mancha and Montiel and the knight's frail figure would be, for the future, no less poetic than Sinbad's haunts or Ariosto's vast geographies.For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.

Day and night, their frail and crippled ships defy the tempest.