Borges QUOTES

Also the best lesson on fiction writing.

"Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone." 

"A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and individuals. A short time before he dies, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the lineaments of his own face." 

"It is love. I will have to run or hide. It is love with its mythologies, with its tiny useless magics. There exists a corner that I dare not cross. Now the armies confine me, the hordes.A woman hurts me in all of my body."