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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 citát: „Vina trvá potud, pokud trvá lítost.“
Tento citát čeká na kontrolu.

„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

“Like every writer, he measured the virtues of other writers by their performance, and asked that they measure him by what he conjectured or planned.”

Jorge Luis Borges kniha Ficciones

"The Secret Miracle"; Variant: Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.
Zdroj: Ficciones (1944)

“Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.”

Jorge Luis Borges kniha Other Inquisitions

"Note on (toward) Bernard Shaw"
Variant translation: A book is not an autonomous entity: it is a relation, an axis of innumerable relations. One literature differs from another, be it earlier or later, not because of the texts but because of the way they are read: if I could read any page from the present time — this one, for instance — as it will be read in the year 2000, I would know what the literature of the year 2000 would be like.
Other Inquisitions (1952)

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library.”

Jorge Luis Borges

Varianta: I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

“Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.”

Jorge Luis Borges

"A Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz", in The Aleph (1949); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)
Variant: Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment — the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

“For one of those gnostics, the visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.”

Jorge Luis Borges kniha Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

Para uno de esos gnosticos, el visible universo era una ilusion o (mas precisamente) un sofisma. Los espejos y la paternidad son abominables porque lo multiplican y lo divulgan.
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (1940)

“The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.”

Jorge Luis Borges

"Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv", in A Universal History of Iniquity (1935); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998). Cf. Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (1940)

“His many years had reduced and polished him the way water smooths and polishes a stone or generations of men polish a proverb.”

Jorge Luis Borges kniha The Man on the Threshold

"The Man on the Threshold", in The Aleph (1949); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998). Cf. "The South" in Ficciones" (1944)

“How else can one threaten, other than with death? The interesting, the original thing, would be to threaten someone with immortality.”

Jorge Luis Borges

¿De qué otra forma se puede amenazar que no sea de muerte? Lo interesante, lo original, sería que alguien lo amenace a uno con la inmortalidad.
Borges, Biografía Verbal (1988) by Roberto Alifano, p. 23

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