Quotes Tagged With :borge

And yet, and yet… Denying temporal succession, denying the self, denying the astronomical universe,....

The gods weave misfortunes for men, so that the generations to come will have something to sing about.”....

If you have feelings about reading, you feel the rhythm of prose or of a poem like music. It awakens....

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in....

As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries:....

As Borges himself showed us in so many stories — "The Aleph", "The Garden of Forking Paths", "The Gift",....

I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done.

At a certain point talk about 'essence' and 'oneness' and the universal becomes more tautological than....

The metaphysicians of Tlön are not looking for truth, nor even for an approximation of it; they are....

Borges is particularly stimulating to a man who works in the cinema, because the unusual thing about....