Every man should be capable of all ideas, and I believe that in the future he will be.
Jorge Luis BorgesTo think, analyze and invent are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence.
Jorge Luis BorgesThey seek neither truth nor likelihood; they seek astonishment. They think metaphysics is a branch of the literature of fantasy
Jorge Luis BorgesTags: fantasy
The European and the North American consider that a book that has been awarded any kind of prize must be good; the Argentine allows for the possibility that the book might not be bad, despite the prize.
Jorge Luis BorgesTags: individualism
„Ştia forma norilor australi din ziua de 30 aprilie 1882, şi putea s-o compare cu nervurile unei cărţi din hârtie spaniolă pe care o privise o singură dată sau cu crestele de spumă pe care o vâslă le-a ridicat pe Rio Negro în ajunul luptei de la Quebracho. Aceste amintiri nu erau simple; fiecare imagine vizuală era legată de senzaţii musculare, termice etc. Putea să reconstruiască toate visele. De două sau de trei ori reconstruise câte o zi întreagă. Mi-a spus: Eu singur am mai multe amintiri decât toţi oamenii de când lumea e lume. Şi-a continuat: Visele mele sunt ca veghea dumneavoastră. Iar spre ziuă a adăugat: Memoria mea, domnule, este asemeni unui depozit de gunoi
Jorge Luis BorgesTags: funes-cel-ce-nu-uită
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
Jorge Luis BorgesTime forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. In one of them I am your enemy.
Jorge Luis BorgesBlind to all fault, destiny can be ruthless at one's slightest distraction.
Jorge Luis BorgesTags: destiny
Tennyson said that if we could understand a single flower we would know who we are and what the world is. Perhaps he meant that there is no deed, however so humble, which does not implicate universal history and the infinite concatenation of causes and effects. Perhaps he meant that the visible world is implicit, in its entirety, in each manifestation, just as, in the same way, will, according to Schopenhauer, is implicit, in its entirety, in each individual.
Jorge Luis BorgesMorir por un a religión es más simple que vivirla con plenitud.
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