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The shortest distance between two people is a smile. — Victor Borge
A writer always begins by being too complicated—he’s playing at several games at once. — Jorge Luis Borges
This book first arose out of a passage in Borges, out of the laughter that shattered, as I read the passage, all the fam — Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
And yet, and yet… Denying temporal succession, denying the self, denying the astronomical universe, are apparent despera — Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in front of a roaring — Victor Borge
I normally don't do requests. Unless, of course, I have been asked to do so. — Victor Borge
(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and b — Victor Borge
Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anyt — Victor Borge
(Responding to a sneeze from the audience) Who exploded? — Victor Borge
If you have feelings about reading, you feel the rhythm of prose or of a poem like music. It awakens something in your s — María Kodama
The gods weave misfortunes for men, so that the generations to come will have something to sing about.” Mallarmé repeats — Jorge Luis Borges, Seven Nights
The three of them knew it. She was Kafka’s mistress. Kafka had dreamt her. The three of them knew it. He was Kafka’s fri — Jorge Luis Borges
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written — I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.
The truth is that we all live by leaving behind — no doubt we all profoundly know that we are immortal and that sooner or later every man will do all things and know everything.
As Borges himself showed us in so many stories — "The Aleph", "The Garden of Forking Paths", "The Gift", "Blue Tigers", — Andrew Hurley
As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always — William H. Gass, Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation
The metaphysicians of Tlön are not looking for truth, nor even for an approximation of it; they are after a kind of amaz — Jorge Luis Borges, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
One day or one night—between my days and nights, what difference can there be?—I dreamed that there was a grain of sand — Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph and Other Stories
I'm alone and nobody is in the mirror — Jorge Luis Borges, Poems of the Night
I do not know which of us has written this page. — Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings