Quotes Tagged With :borges

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

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

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

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

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

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

I cannot combine some charactersdhcmrlchtdjwhich the divine Library has not foreseen and which in one....

I owe my first inkling of the problem of infinity to a large biscuit tin that was a source of vertiginous....

Things, events, that occupy space yet come to an end when someone dies make us stop in wonder - and yet....

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