“You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language?”
Jorge Luis Borges livro The Library of Babel
Fonte: The Library of Babel
Jorge Luis Borges: Frases em inglês
Jorge Luis Borges era escritor argentino. Frases em inglês.Jorge Luis Borges: 331 citações38 Curtidas
“There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her.”
Fonte: The Aleph and Other Stories
Jorge Luis Borges livro The Theologians
The Theologians, translated by James E. Irby (1964)
The Garden of Forking Paths (1942), The Garden of Forking Paths
Jorge Luis Borges livro Brodie's Report
Fonte: Brodie's Report
“A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships”
Jorge Luis Borges livro Ficciones
"Note on (toward) Bernard Shaw" ["Nota sobre (hacia) Bernard Shaw"] (1951)
Other Inquisitions (1952)
Fonte: Ficciones
Contexto: 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)
Variante: I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.