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Jorge Luis Borges [chorche lujs borches] byl argentinský spisovatel.

✵ 24. srpen 1899 – 14. červen 1986
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Jorge Luis Borges: 222 citátů23 lajků

Jorge Luis Borges nejznámější citáty

„V životě je zapotřebí vášně.“

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges citát: „Vina trvá potud, pokud trvá lítost.“

„Vina trvá potud, pokud trvá lítost.“

Jorge Luis Borges

„Dvacet let jsem na fakultě humanitních věd univerzity v Buenos Aires vyučoval anglickou literaturu. Svým studentům jsem vždycky radil, aby místo kritik a pojednání o knihách četli přímo knihy samotné; možná jim budou méně rozumět, ale budou mít požitek z toho, že slyší něčí hlas.“

Jorge Luis Borges

Zdroj: [Mendonça, José Tolentino, Nekonečná četba – Písmo a jeho interpretace, getsemany.cz, březen 2018, 2018-03-20, https://www.getsemany.cz/node/3513]

„Bůh stvořil noci složené
ze snů a lesklých zrcadel,
to aby člověk pochopil,
že je jen odrazem. Proto nás tolik děsí?“

Jorge Luis Borges

Zdroj: Uvedeno v knize Čtení obrazů, Alberto Manguel

„Občas se stane, že jakási tvář
prohlíží si nás z hlubiny zrcadla;
i umění by mělo být jako to zrcadlo
a ukazovat nám naši tvář.“

Jorge Luis Borges

Zdroj: Uvedeno v knize Čtení obrazů, Alberto Manguel

Tento citát čeká na kontrolu.

„Psát tlustospisy, rozvádět na pěti stech stránkách myšlenku, kterou lze dokonale ústně vyjádřit v několika minutách, je namáhavá a vysilujicí pošetilost. Lépe je předstírat, že takové knihy už existují, a podávat jejich obsah či komentář k nim.“

Jorge Luis Borges

Zdroj: Fikce

„Moje znalost malajské či maďarské literatury je nulová, jsem si však jist, že kdyby mi čas poskytl možnost studovat je, nalezl bych v nich veškerou potravu, kterou si duše žádá.“

Jorge Luis Borges

Zdroj: [Lukavec, Jan, Borges, Jorge Luis: Další pátrání; Dějiny věčnosti, iliteratura.cz, 2012-03-14, 2012-09-15, http://www.iliteratura.cz/Clanek/29683/borges-jorge-luis-dalsi-patrani-dejiny-vecnosti]

Jorge Luis Borges: Citáty anglicky

“You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language?”

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Jorge Luis Borges kniha The Library of Babel

Zdroj: The Library of Babel

“I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.”

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Jorge Luis Borges

Zdroj: Collected Fictions

“When you reach my age, you realize you couldn't have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.”

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Jorge Luis Borges

“There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her.”

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Jorge Luis Borges

Zdroj: The Aleph and Other Stories

“Man's memory shapes
Its own Eden within”

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Jorge Luis Borges Dreamtigers

Zdroj: Dreamtigers

“What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?”

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Jorge Luis Borges Dreamtigers

Zdroj: Dreamtigers

“Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.”

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Jorge Luis Borges kniha The Theologians

The Theologians, translated by James E. Irby (1964)

“I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.”

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Jorge Luis Borges

The Garden of Forking Paths (1942), The Garden of Forking Paths

“The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.”

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Jorge Luis Borges

“It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.”

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Jorge Luis Borges

“I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.”

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Jorge Luis Borges kniha Brodie's Report

Zdroj: Brodie's Report

“A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships”

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Jorge Luis Borges kniha Ficciones

"Note on (toward) Bernard Shaw" ["Nota sobre (hacia) Bernard Shaw"] (1951)
Other Inquisitions (1952)
Zdroj: Ficciones
Kontext: 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.

“There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.”

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Jorge Luis Borges

“He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.”

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Jorge Luis Borges Dreamtigers

Zdroj: Dreamtigers

“There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.”

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Jorge Luis Borges

“I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.”

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Jorge Luis Borges

“He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.”

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Jorge Luis Borges

Zdroj: The Aleph and Other Stories

“Paradise will be a kind of library”

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Jorge Luis Borges Dreamtigers

Poem of the Gifts ["Poema de los Dones"]
Dreamtigers (1960)
Varianta: I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.

“It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.”

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Jorge Luis Borges

“The machinery of the world is far too complex for the simplicity of men.”

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Jorge Luis Borges Dreamtigers

Zdroj: Dreamtigers

“Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically dessicated and preserved.”

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Jorge Luis Borges Dreamtigers

Zdroj: Dreamtigers

“Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.”

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Jorge Luis Borges

“The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.”

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Jorge Luis Borges

“To think, analyze and invent are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence.”

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Jorge Luis Borges kniha Ficciones

Zdroj: Ficciones

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