Quotes Tagged With :borges

The story of two dreams is a coincidence, a line drawn by chance, like the shapes of lions or horses....

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

The three of them knew it. She was Kafka’s mistress. Kafka had dreamt her. The three of them knew it.....

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

One day or one night—between my days and nights, what difference can there be?—I dreamed that there....

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

I do not know which of us has written this page.

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

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

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