I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
Jorge Luis BorgesTags: books
Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
Jorge Luis BorgesThe fact is that each writer creates his own precursors.
Jorge Luis BorgesI have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
Jorge Luis BorgesA 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.
Jorge Luis BorgesTags: words reading books literature
A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and individuals. A short time before he dies, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the lineaments of his own face.
Jorge Luis BorgesQuando um indivíduo cria algo, digamos, uma composição musical, um romance, uma pintura, um filme, um vídeo, esse indivíduo se torna um autor, quer dizer, alguém que é capaz de deixar marcas, traços de seu modo próprio de criar mensagens em um processo de signos com o qual lida. O autor é aquele que interfere de modo particular e pessoal em um processo de signos.
Jorge Luis BorgesTags: autor
Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience in a garden should contaminate all humanity; for that reason it is not unjust that the crucifixion of a single Jew should be sufficient to save it.
Jorge Luis BorgesTags: philosophy fiction
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.
Jorge Luis BorgesChang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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