#borges quotes

[notebookofquotes]

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Jose Luis Borges

[thoreau-in-making]

"Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies — for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry — I say to myself, “What a pity I can’t buy that book, for I already have a copy at home."

— Jorge Luis Borges, This Craft of Verse

[karlaxmena]

“So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers” Jorge Luis Borges.

[argentdawn27]

Que el cielo exista, aunque nuestro lugar sea el infierno.

Jorge Luis Borges.