Quotes Tagged With :borge

But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and....

I think—the hero observes that nothing is so frightening as a labyrinth with no center.

Borges's extreme architecture attempts to visualize the universe by assigning to every object real and....

It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost....

This book first arose out of a passage in Borges, out of the laughter that shattered, as I read the passage,....

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

A writer always begins by being too complicated—he’s playing at several games at once.

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",....

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