Jorge Luis Borges Should Quotations

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

Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.

Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry.

Every man should be capable of all ideas.

It seemed incredible to me that day without premonitions or symbols should be the one of my inexorable death .

The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.

I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.