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“You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language?”
Jorge Luis Borges kniha The Library of Babel
Zdroj: The Library of Babel
“There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her.”
Zdroj: The Aleph and Other Stories
Jorge Luis Borges kniha The Theologians
The Theologians, translated by James E. Irby (1964)
The Garden of Forking Paths (1942), The Garden of Forking Paths
Jorge Luis Borges kniha Brodie's Report
Zdroj: Brodie's Report
“A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships”
Jorge Luis Borges kniha Ficciones
"Note on (toward) Bernard Shaw" ["Nota sobre (hacia) Bernard Shaw"] (1951)
Other Inquisitions (1952)
Zdroj: Ficciones
Kontext: A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.
“Paradise will be a kind of library”
Jorge Luis Borges Dreamtigers
Poem of the Gifts ["Poema de los Dones"]
Dreamtigers (1960)
Varianta: I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.
“Fame is a form, perhaps the worst form, of incomprehension.”
Jorge Luis Borges kniha Ficciones
Zdroj: Ficciones
“From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.”
Jorge Luis Borges kniha Ficciones
Zdroj: Ficciones
“The machinery of the world is far too complex for the simplicity of men.”
Jorge Luis Borges Dreamtigers
Zdroj: Dreamtigers
