The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all of my instants would be provisional phases, annihilators of the past turned to face the future, and that beyond the episodic, the present, the circumstantial, we were nobody.
Jorge Luis BorgesTag: time self provisionality
We can handle all European themes, handle them without superstition, with an irreverence which can have, and already does have, fortunate consequences.
Jorge Luis BorgesThe aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, as water. We feel poetry as we feel the closeness of a woman, or as we feel a mountain or a bay. If we feel it immediately, why dilute it further with words, which no doubt will be weaker than our feelings?
Jorge Luis BorgesWhen writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation."
[As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges, The New Yorker, June 24, 1996; as well as in The Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]
Tag: words reading books death literature immortality transformation
Modificar el pasado no es modificar un solo hecho; es anular sus consecuencias, que tienden a ser infinitas
Jorge Luis BorgesCualquier destino, por largo y complicado que sea, consta en realidad de un solo momento: el momento en que el hombre sabe para siempre quién es
Jorge Luis BorgesAlejandría, debelada, imploró en vano la misericordia del César
Jorge Luis Borges« Je ne crois pas aux méthodes du réalisme, genre artificiel s'il en est; je préfère révéler d'un seul coup ce que j'ai compris graduellement. »
Jorge Luis BorgesI prayed aloud, less to plead for divine favor than to intimidate the tribe with articulate speech.
Jorge Luis BorgesBeing an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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