6 Jorge Luis Borges Quotes on Work

Jorge Luis Borges quotes on work

15. There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances and changes, the impossible thing is not to compose the Odyssey, at least once.

64. My undertaking is not difficult, essentially... I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.

86. Like every writer, he measured the virtues of other writers by their performance, and asked that they measure him by what he conjectured or planned.

87. The time for your labor has been granted.

129. Que cada hombre construya su propia catedral. ?Para que vivir de obras de arte ajenas y antiguas?

143. Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face.