BORGES
“I
have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
“I
am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all
the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I
have visited.”
“Let
others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather
boast about the ones I've read.”
“I
cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
“To
fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”
“The
mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.”
“When
writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an
incarnation."
“Personally,
I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was
ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore
the commentaries and criticism.”
“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.”
“Life
itself is a quotation.”
And
you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning
And company doesn’t mean security.
And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts
And presents aren’t promises,
And you begin to accept your defeats
With your head up and your eyes open
With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child,
After a while you learn…
That even sunshine burns if you get too much.
With every good-bye you learn.”
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| Le Lecteur |
And company doesn’t mean security.
And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts
And presents aren’t promises,
And you begin to accept your defeats
With your head up and your eyes open
With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child,
After a while you learn…
That even sunshine burns if you get too much.
With every good-bye you learn.”
“Writing
is nothing more than a guided dream.”
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| Le chat parmi les livres |
