Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph And Other Stories Quotes

There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her.

He was very religious he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.

I prayed aloud, less to plead for divine favor than to intimidate the tribe with articulate speech.

Tearing money is an impiety, like throwing away bread.

So witless did these ideas strike me as being, so sweeping and pompous the way they were expressed, that I associated them immediately with literature.

But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over.