We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.

— Jorge Luis Borges

We are ignorant of the meaning of the dragon in the same way that we are ignorant of the meaning of the universe; but there is something in the dragon’s image that fits man’s imagination, and this accounts for the dragon’s appearance in different places and periods.

— Jorge Luis Borges

We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.

— Jorge Luis Borges

We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.

— Jorge Luis Borges

We must not be too prodigal with our angels; they are the last divinities we harbor, and they might fly away.

— Jorge Luis Borges

We spend our lives waiting for our book, and it never comes.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience in a garden should contaminate all humanity; for that reason it is not unjust that the crucifixion of a single Jew should be sufficient to save it.

— Jorge Luis Borges

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

— Jorge Luis Borges

When a writer dies, he becomes his books.

— Jorge Luis Borges

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnate

— Jorge Luis Borges