64 Quotes About Borges
- Author Arturo Rosenblath and Norbert Wiener
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The best material model for a cat is another, or preferably the same cat.
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- Author Jorge Luis Borges
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I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done.
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- Author Andrew Hurley
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As Borges himself showed us in so many stories — "The Aleph", "The Garden of Forking Paths", "The Gift", "Blue Tigers", "Shakespeare's Memory" — a blessing is always a mixed blessing.As Borges noted sadly, he inherited a library, and blindness; we who study Borges inherit great sight, yet the rest of the library somehow fades.(pg 303, "What I Lost When I Translated Jorge Luis Borges")
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- Author William H. Gass
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As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge their store.
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- Author Jorge Luis Borges
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Vivimos descubriendo y olvidandoesa dulce costumbre de la noche.Hay que mirarla bien. Puede ser última.(Our life is spent discovering and forgettingthat gentle habit of the night.Take a good look. It could be the last.)
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- Author Ursula K. Le Guin
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...I, like Borges, think of heaven as something very like a library
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- Author Jorge Luis Borges
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I cannot combine some charactersdhcmrlchtdjwhich the divine Library has not foreseen and which in one of its secret tongues do not contain a terrible meaning. No one can articulate a syllable which is not filled with tenderness and fear, which is not, in one of these languages, the powerful name of a god. To speak is to fall into tautology.
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- Author Jorge Luis Borges
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La cosa certa è che viviamo rimandando tutto ciò che può essere rimandato; forse tutti sappiamo che siamo immortali e che prima o poi, ogni uomo farà ogni cosa e saprà tutto
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- Author Jorge Luis Borges
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The metaphysicians of Tlön are not looking for truth, nor even for an approximation of it; they are after a kind of amazement.
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