Quotes about Borges

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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
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
I owe my first inkling of the problem of infinity to a large biscuit tin that was a source of vertiginous mystery during — Jorge Luis Borges
I cannot combine some charactersdhcmrlchtdjwhich the divine Library has not foreseen and which in one of its secret tong — Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
Things, events, that occupy space yet come to an end when someone dies make us stop in wonder - and yet one thing, or an — Jorge Luis Borges, Collected Fictions
Borges's extreme architecture attempts to visualize the universe by assigning to every object real and unreal, now and y — Akira Mizuta Lippit, Atomic Light
But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought — Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph and Other Stories
The story of two dreams is a coincidence, a line drawn by chance, like the shapes of lions or horses that are sometimes — Jorge Luis Borges