Author of quotes: Jorge Luis Borges



To be with you or not to be with you is the measure of my time.
№ 460558   Added Viker 10-01-2024 / 15:23
Death is man's first good night.
№ 456956   Added MegaMozg 25-09-2023 / 07:24
Humor... the genre is purely oral, a spark that shines in conversation, not a passage fixed on the letter.
Quote Explanation: Borges. "A few words about (or around) Bernard Shaw"
№ 405668   Added MegaMozg 21-10-2020 / 06:27
We are so poor in courage and faith that we see at the good end only crudely fabricated indulgence of mass tastes.
Quote Explanation: Borges. «Four cycles»
№ 405667   Added MegaMozg 21-10-2020 / 06:24
Any life, even the most long and complicated, consists of a single moment, when man once and for all knows who he is.
№ 358712   Added MegaMozg 27-01-2019 / 12:00
The fate of any man, how difficult and long it was, in fact, is only one moment - the moment when the person once and for all knows who he is.
№ 356649   Added MegaMozg 13-01-2019 / 11:12
The man gradually takes form of his destiny, joins with their circumstances.
№ 344819   Added MegaMozg 27-09-2018 / 05:02
Every word was like a talisman discovered by us... We like getting drunk.
№ 333256   Added MegaMozg 13-07-2018 / 16:10
I don't know if the music is boring music, and the marble to get tired of marble. But literature is an art that can prophesy their own dumbness, take your anger out on the virtue, to love his own death and to hold their remains in recent the way
№ 319302   Added MegaMozg 11-03-2018 / 23:06
Best page, the page in which you can not with impunity to change one word, always the worst.
№ 319301   Added MegaMozg 11-03-2018 / 23:05
Someone is proud of each written book, and I read.
№ 314548   Added MegaMozg 19-01-2018 / 01:05
He easily learned English, French, Portuguese, Latin. However, I suspect that he was not very capable of thinking. To think is to forget differences, to generalize, to abstract. Objects in the cluttered world of Funes, there was only details, in addition to directly data.
Quote Explanation: The author of the man who had swashplate
№ 258698   Added MegaMozg 18-01-2017 / 17:23
I learned long ago that hell can be: a face, a word, a compass, a brand of cigarettes able to bring to mind, if not to erase them from memory.
№ 248541   Added MegaMozg 17-01-2017 / 21:38
The Falklands war was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
Quote Explanation: Falkland or Malvinas war 1982 war between Britain and Argentina for control of Falkland Islands (in Argentina they are called the Malvinas). Neither Argentina nor Britain had not formally declared war; from the point of view of both parties, the military action was a restoration of control over its legal territory. The war ended with the victory of great Britain, which controls the Islands to this day. The victory contributed to the growth of patriotism in the UK and the strengthening of the position of the government of Margaret Thatcher.
№ 247950   Added MegaMozg 17-01-2017 / 21:14
You woke up from a dream, and dreams, and this dream lies within another and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you have to go through endless and you will die before you do Wake up.
№ 245264   Added MegaMozg 17-01-2017 / 19:14