Jorge Luis Borges citáty

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Zdroj: The Book of Imaginary Beings

"The Secret Miracle"; Variant: Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.
Zdroj: Ficciones (1944)

Zdroj: The Aleph and Other Stories

Zdroj: Collected Fictions

Zdroj: The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory

Zdroj: Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings

The Garden of Forking Paths (1942), The Garden of Forking Paths
Zdroj: Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings

"Note on (toward) Bernard Shaw"
Variant translation: A book is not an autonomous entity: it is a relation, an axis of innumerable relations. One literature differs from another, be it earlier or later, not because of the texts but because of the way they are read: if I could read any page from the present time — this one, for instance — as it will be read in the year 2000, I would know what the literature of the year 2000 would be like.
Other Inquisitions (1952)

Varianta: I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

"A Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz", in The Aleph (1949); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)
Variant: Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment — the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

Zdroj: Ficciones

Zdroj: Collected Fictions

"Three Versions of Judas"
Ficciones (1944)

Para uno de esos gnosticos, el visible universo era una ilusion o (mas precisamente) un sofisma. Los espejos y la paternidad son abominables porque lo multiplican y lo divulgan.
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (1940)

"The Aleph" ["El Aleph"] (1945)

"The Waiting" translated by James E. Irby (1959)

"Gauchesque Poetry"
Discussion (1932)

"Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv", in A Universal History of Iniquity (1935); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998). Cf. Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (1940)

The Garden of Forking Paths (1942), The Garden of Forking Paths

The Theologians, translated by James E. Irby (1964)

Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (1940)

"The Man on the Threshold", in The Aleph (1949); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998). Cf. "The South" in Ficciones" (1944)

Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (1940)

¿De qué otra forma se puede amenazar que no sea de muerte? Lo interesante, lo original, sería que alguien lo amenace a uno con la inmortalidad.
Borges, Biografía Verbal (1988) by Roberto Alifano, p. 23