Variante: De toutes les villes du monde. de toutes les patries intimes qu'un homme cherche à mériter au cours de ses voyages, Genève me semble la plus propice au bonheur.
Jorge Luis Borges citations célèbres
C’est un philosophe très connu.
Un filósofo argentino y yo conversábamos una vez sobre el tema del tiempo. Y el filósofo dijo: “En cuanto a esto, se hicieron muchos progresos en los últimos años”. Y yo pensé que si le hubiera hecho una pregunta acerca del espacio, seguramente él me hubiera respondido: “En cuanto a esto, se hicieron muchos progresos en los últimos cien metros”. Es un filósofo muy conocido.
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Conversations à Buenos Aires, 1996
Citations sur les rêves de Jorge Luis Borges
Et, s'arrêtant une fois encore : "Mais peut-être n'est-ce pas notre affaire."
Jorge Luis Borges Citations
The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory
Jorge Luis Borges livre Fictions
Ficciones
El hecho es que cada escritor crea sus precursores. Su labor modifica nuestra concepción del pasado, como ha de modificar el futuro.
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Essais
Introduction du livre d'Henry James
Jorge Luis Borges livre Fictions
Fictions, 1944
“Gardel et moi, nous avons quelque chose en commun: aucun de nous n’aime le tango.”
Gardel y yo tenemos algo en común: a ninguno de los dos nos gusta el tango.
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Yo creo que la teología es una rama de la literatura fantástica. Otra es el psicoanálisis.
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¿Por qué voy a morirme, si nunca lo he hecho antes? ¿Por qué voy a cometer un acto tan ajeno a mis hábitos? Es como si me dijeran que voy a ser buzo o domador o algo así, ¿no?
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The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory
Jorge Luis Borges: Citations en anglais
“Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. In one of them I am your enemy.”
The Garden of Forking Paths (1942), The Garden of Forking Paths
"The Waiting" translated by James E. Irby (1959)
“There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.”
"Ibn-Hakim Al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrinth", in The Aleph (1949); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)
On F. H. Bradley in "Avatars of the Tortoise"
Discussion (1932)
“Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.”
"The Postulation of Reality" ["La postulación de la realidad"] (1931)
Discussion (1932)
Jorge Luis Borges livre Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
Variant translation: Mirrors and copulation are obscene, for they increase the numbers of mankind.
Cf. "Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv", in A Universal History of Iniquity (1935)
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (1940)
Jorge Luis Borges livre The Analytical Language of John Wilkins
Cabe ir más lejos; cabe sospechar que no hay universo en el sentido orgánico, unificador, que tiene esa ambiciosa palabra. Si lo hay, falta conjeturar su propósito; falta conjeturar las palabras, las definiciones, las etimologías, las sinonimias, del secreto diccionario de Dios.
As translated by Lilia Graciela Vázquez
Other Inquisitions (1952), The Analytical Language of John Wilkins
Variante: We can go further; we suspect that there is no universe in the organic, unifying sense of that ambitious word. If there is, we must conjecture its purpose; we must conjecture the words, the definitions, the etymologies, the synonyms, from the secret dictionary of God.
Jorge Luis Borges livre Fictions
"Funes the Memorious" ["Funes El Memorioso"] (1944); also published in Labyrinths (1964)
Ficciones (1944)
Jorge Luis Borges livre Other Inquisitions
"New Refutation of Time"
Other Inquisitions (1952)
“Being conservative is a way of being skeptic.”
Ser conservador es una forma de ser escéptico. <br class="br"> Interview in Revista Extra (July 1976) http://www.sololiteratura.com/bor/borsellamaborges.htm
Jorge Luis Borges livre Other Inquisitions
"Nathaniel Hawthorne"
Other Inquisitions (1952)
"Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote"
The Garden of Forking Paths (1942)
Jorge Luis Borges livre Evaristo Carriego: A Book About Old-Time Buenos Aires
Evaristo Carriego (1930) Ch. 2
Jorge Luis Borges livre Fictions
"Death and the Compass"
Ficciones (1944)
Jorge Luis Borges livre Other Inquisitions
"The Flower of Coleridge" ["La flor de Coleridge"] — The title of this work makes reference to a line by Samuel Coleridge in Anima Poetæ : From the Unpublished Note-books of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1895), p. 282 : "If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake — Aye, what then?"
Other Inquisitions (1952)
Jorge Luis Borges livre The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim
"The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim" (1935)
Richard Burgin, Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges, Holt, Rhinehart, & Winston, 1968. Pages 93-94.
Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges (1968)
Jorge Luis Borges livre Fictions
"The Secret Miracle"
Ficciones (1944)
Jorge Luis Borges livre Other Inquisitions
Other Inquisitions (1952), The Modesty of History
“I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia.”
Jorge Luis Borges livre Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
First lines
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (1940)
Richard Burgin, Conversation with Jorge Luis Borges, pages 92-93.
Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges (1968)
Jorge Luis Borges livre Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (1940)
Variante: This happy conjecture affirmed that there is only one subject, that this indivisible subject is every being in the universe and that these beings are the organs and masks of the divinity.
“My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.”
Dr. Brodie's Report [El informe de Brodie] (1970)
Jorge Luis Borges Dreamtigers
Un hombre se propone la tarea de dibujar el mundo. A lo largo de los años puebla un espacio con imágenes de provincias, de reinos, de montañas, de bahías, de naves, de islas, de peces, de habitaciones, de instrumentos, de astros, de caballos y de personas. Poco antes de morir, descubre que ese paciente laberinto de líneas traza la imagen de su cara.
Epilogue
Variant translation: A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Through the years he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that that patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his face.
Dreamtigers (1960)
"To the Reader" ["A quien leyere"], preface to Fervor of Buenos Aires [Fervor de Buenos Aires] (1923)
“Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.”
La duda es uno de los nombres de la inteligencia.
As quoted in Diccionario privado de Jorge Luis Borges (1979) edited by Blas Matamoro
Variant translation: I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left... Whosoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished, should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
The Garden of Forking Paths (1942), The Garden of Forking Paths
“My undertaking is not difficult, essentially… I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.”
"Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" ["Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote"]
The Garden of Forking Paths (1942)
Comparing film and stage theatre in "The Divine Comedy" (1977)
“Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.”
"Gauchesque Poetry" ["La poesía gauchesca"]
Discussion (1932)
