Quotations from Borges (recommended reading)

1, the perfect word is not surprising in poetry; They all seem to be taken for granted. So we seldom understand the pain experienced by writers.

2. Serious events are beyond the scope of time. Time may be cut off because of the connection between the past and the future, or it may be because there seems to be no connection between the parts that make up the event.

Once the goal is achieved, time stops, or more accurately, what happens later is irrelevant.

Sunset is always disturbing, no matter whether it is gorgeous or poor, but what is more disturbing is the despair that passed by at the last moment.

You will retort that reality doesn't have to be interesting. My answer is that reality can be exempted from interesting obligations, but people have to make assumptions.

6. I don't write for fame, nor for a specific reader. I write for the passage of time and make me feel relaxed.

7. Heroes fight like this. The noble mind is fearless, and the steel sword in his hand is extremely sharp, just seeking to kill his opponent or die in battle.

8. Truth will not enter the mind that refuses to understand. Since all parts of the world are included in Alef, all lamps and all light sources are of course included.

9. Poetry needs rhythm. Poetry will always remember that before it was used as a writing art, it was first an oral art, and it used to be a song.

10, I should believe there are others, but I can't. Only you are real. You, my misfortune and my luck are inexhaustible.

1 1 I think that a person may become the enemy of others, and at another time, he may become the enemy of others, but he cannot become the enemy of a country, that is, fireflies, languages, gardens, flowing water and westerly winds.

12, I feel that young people seem to particularly like this feeling of saying that they are worried; They almost try their best to make themselves sad and usually succeed.

13, some people can't imagine a world without birds; Some people cannot imagine a world without water; As for me, I can't imagine a world without books.

14, the nightingale doesn't ask anyone to listen to it, which is its modesty, but it doesn't care whether anyone listens, which is its pride.

15, for a moment in the evening, the plain seems to have something to say; Never said, maybe eternity has been telling, we can't understand; Maybe we understand, but we can't explain it like music.

16 I made it in time. Time is a river that takes me, and I am that river; It is the tiger that devours me, but I am a tiger; It was the fire that hurt me, but I am the fire.

17, I have accepted those ugly things since I was a child. There are many things out of place in the world, and we have to accept each other in order to survive.

18, I am this slow intensity, a soul. I am always close to happiness and cherish painful caresses. I crossed the ocean.

19, eternal life is insignificant; All living things can live forever except human beings, because they don't know what death is; The consciousness of eternal life is sacred, terrible and unfathomable.

I need you, the leaf of my tree of life, just as I need peace. Love. Just like health, now and forever. Some people will take a lot, while others will leave nothing behind. This just proves that two souls don't meet by chance.

2 1, he remembered that people's dreams belong to God. Maimonide said that if the words in a dream are clearly distinguishable and invisible to the speaker, those words are sacred.

22. Some things are always mixed with some untrue ingredients. What can be achieved by detailing what happened?

All writers have only five themes to write in their life, and then they write over and over again until they die.

He lives alone, without a wife or friends. He loves everything and has everything, but on the other side of the glass seems to be far apart; Later, when he died, his faint image disappeared, as if water had disappeared into the water.

As far as I know, hints are more effective than any plain words. Maybe people always have a tendency not to listen to lectures!

If I were really a poet, I would think that every moment of life is beautiful, even in some moments that don't look beautiful. But in the end, memories make everything beautiful.

27. Reading is an experience, an absolute experience. It's like, for example, seeing a woman, falling in love and crossing the street.

28. I belong to no one. I belong to the whole world. You were in it before you came in, and you were still in it after you left.

29. I can write some stories. I write these things because I believe in them. This is not just a level of believing in the truth of historical events, but a level like someone believing in a dream or idea.

30. Let's not forget that for the original magical thinking, the name is not only a symbol of one's will, but a vital part of the overall concept established by this symbol.

In my opinion, all languages lead to meaning. Everything in the world can be used to express meaning. Why only art?

32. I slide down your twilight, just as I am tired of sliding down the slope, and the young night is like the wings on your roof platform.

33. One of the attributes of hell lies in its unreality, which makes its sense of terror seem to be alleviated, but it may also be strengthened.

34. Statements, replaced and fragmented statements, and other people's statements are poor alms left by time and century.

35. I will explain your life, your own theory, your real and magical existence to you. I give you my loneliness, my darkness and my inner desire; I tried to impress you with confusion, danger and failure.

If I can't get that honor, wisdom and happiness, let others get it. Even if I go to hell, I hope the kingdom of heaven exists.

37. Like all writers, he judges others' achievements by his finished works, but asks others to judge himself by his own conceived or planned works.

I have repeatedly told myself that time is an endless warp composed of past, present, future, eternity and eternity, and nothing is more elusive than time.

39. Over the years, I have understood the truth that anything in the world can be the bud of hell. A face, a sentence, a compass and a cigarette advertisement, if not forgotten, may make people crazy.

40. The relaxation of you and me comes from the moment when death finally appears in front of us: good luck will come, and we are finally freed from the sad habit of becoming someone and the burden of the whole universe.

4 1, he is not writing for future generations, nor for God, because he knows nothing about God's literary preferences. He worked hard, motionless, and secretly created an invisible maze within the scope of time.

42. I cried because I saw with my own eyes the secret and hypothetical thing whose name was repeatedly stolen, but no one faced it squarely: the incomprehensible universe.

43. The fact is that we put off everything that can be put off; If we all know that we are immortal, then sooner or later all people will finish everything and know everything.

44. Insomnia is knowing that you shouldn't wake up alone when others are sleeping alone. It is the desire to enter a dream but not sleep. Is a fear of life, and will continue to live. Ignorance until dawn.

45. In reality, in history, every time a person is faced with a choice, he must choose one and then give up the others; This is not in the concept of time. Time belongs to hope and forgetting, and there are many possibilities in art..

46. I write down everything I know and don't omit it, because life is as shy as sin, and we don't know what is important in God's eyes.

47. The useless dawn found me on a desolate street corner: I survived the night. Darkness is a proud wave: dark blue waves fall high, full of deep earth color, full of unreliable and desirable things.

48. Any language is an alphabet of symbols, and the use of language should be based on the speaker's past experience. My memory of shame can hardly include infinite Alef. How can I convey it to others?

Anyway, here's what happened. Due to the long time, the quality of written expression is inevitably different from the real feeling.

50. Time is a sinking river, and I am the river; Time is to crush my tiger, and I am also a tiger; Time is a fire that devours me, and I am also a fire.

5 1, it's really strange that people never blame England for making the world full of stupid games, such as pure physical sports like football. Football is one of the biggest crimes in Britain.

52. Going back to the past, the past is our wealth. This is the only thing we have and we can control it. We can change it, and we can look at those historical figures in other ways.

53. Aging and fear may mislead me, but I think that unique human beings will be extinct, and libraries will exist: blue lights are lonely, infinite, with rare books, unknown, useless and uncorrupted.

54. If we see a poem expressing some desire instead of telling a fact, that poem is successful.

55, because people live in the continuation of time and time, and mysterious animals live in the present, live in the eternal moment.

56. Therefore, all negligence is well thought out, all encounters are agreed in advance, all humiliation is punishment, all failures are mysterious victories, and all deaths are suicides.

57. This Mao Mao rain covering the window glass will definitely illuminate the black grapes on the shelves in an abandoned suburb and a yard that no longer exists. The humid twilight brings me a sound, the sound I long for.

58. You are the music, sky, palace, river, angel and deep rose that God showed before my blind eyes, and disappeared endlessly.

59. I feel restless again. I think the damp garden around the house is crowded with countless invisible people. Those people are Albert and me, hiding in other latitudes of time, busy and changeable.

60. No matter how long and complicated the fate is, there is actually a time when a person will always know who he is.

6 1, it is said that people are born either Aristotelian or Platonic. This is equivalent to saying that any abstract argument is a fragment of Aristotle and Plato's argument.

62. You will never see the bright moon again. You have used up the constant total. The money that fate gave you is useless even if you open all the windows in the world.

63. The truth bred by time is the opponent of time, the storage of events, the witness of the past and the example of the present.

64. A person will gradually mix with the shape of fate; A person will become his own environment in the future.

65. Jealousy is a very Spanish theme. Those Spaniards are always thinking of jealousy. When they describe something well, they say, that's really enviable.

66. Among the ancient Egyptians, a similar tradition prevailed. Everyone takes two names, one is a nickname for others to call, and the other is a big name, a real name, which is kept secret from others.

67. It suddenly occurred to me that Coleridge had a whim. Someone once dreamed of going to heaven, and heaven gave him a flower as evidence. When he woke up, the flower was still there.

68. In this way, God looks at the history of the universe and what happened in history. All this is seen in a dazzling moment, which is eternity.

69. The house is not that big. What makes it look great is shadow, symmetry, mirror, long years, my unfamiliarity and loneliness.

70. I have received those ugly things since I was a child. There are many things in the world that are out of place and have to accept each other in order to survive.

7 1. The river is a maze of water, the jungle is a maze of trees, the city is a maze of streets, and the library is a maze of human thoughts.

72. One person ordered the person who obeyed him to do one thing. The person who ordered it died, and another person kept doing it until his death.

73. We are largely composed of our memories, and this memory is largely composed of forgetting.

74. Any fate, no matter how long and complicated, is actually only reflected in a moment: the moment when people fully realize who they really are.

75. When I was young, I loved the sunset, the chaotic slums in the city and misfortune. Now I like the morning, downtown and peace.

76. God manipulates the players, and the players manipulate the pieces. Behind God, which God set the fetters of dust, time, dreams and pain?

77. A very old man squatted on the ground with his back against the counter, motionless. The long years have shrunk him and polished his edges and corners, just like a stone polished by running water or a proverb honed by generations.

78. What you remember today is what you will forget tomorrow, and what you can't remember later. So, I'm afraid it's another dream when I wake up, dreaming that I didn't dream. Sleep is nothing but death that comes back every night.

79. I think that a person can be the enemy of others and become the enemy of others for a period of time, but not the enemy of a region, such as fireflies, words, gardens, water and wind.

80. If space is infinite, we are at any point in space. If time is infinite, we are at any point in time.

8 1, he is very pious and thinks he has a secret contract with God. As long as he prays and repents, he will not be punished for what he has done.

82. It is obviously unreasonable for one person to try to evoke memories belonging to a third person in another person. However, it is the good wish of all biographies to put that unreasonable thing into practice without scruple.

83. What can I use to keep you? I give you poor streets, desperate sunsets and the moon in the broken suburbs. I will give you a sad look at the lonely moon for a long time.

Friendship is superior to love because it doesn't need any proof. Once friendship is established, it wants nothing, and it will develop.

85. A person may be the enemy of others, or at another moment, but he can't be the enemy of a country, fireflies, gardens, running water and wind.

86. We may believe in the wind, air and stars we look up at at night, but the arguments can't convince us.

In order to let us feel the speed of the arrow hitting the target from the bow, Dante said that the arrow hit the target, and it left the bow and the string. He turned the whole story upside down to show how fast it all happened.

88. In my opinion, dusk and Venice are almost synonymous, except that our dusk has lost its light and is afraid of darkness, while Venice dusk is beautiful and eternal, with neither past nor future.

89. At dawn, I seem to hear a voice, which is the departing crowd; They once loved me and forgot me; Space, time and Borges all abandoned me.

90. Women bring me bad luck. But the happiness I get is enough to compensate for all my misfortunes. It's better to be painful and happy than to be painless and itchy.

9 1, sleep is to get rid of the world; Founes lay on his back in bed, thinking about every crack and line in the house around him in the dark.

92. Everyone says that I am a great writer. I appreciate this strange idea, but I don't agree with it. In the future, some smart people will easily refute me and label me or both as liars or shoddy.

93. Gray smoke blurs the distant constellations, and everything in front of us has lost its history and name. There are only some immature shadows in the world, people are still the original people, and rivers are still the original rivers.

94. They will teach us that eternity is the stillness of the moment, which is what the philosophical school calls time solidification; But they or anyone else don't understand this, just as they don't understand that the infinite place is the solidification of space.

95. Ignorant people think that infinite drawing needs infinite time, but it is not, as long as time is infinitely subdivided.

96. The continuity of language unduly exaggerates what we say, because each word occupies a place on the page and a moment in the reader's mind.

97. When your brain is big, you must lighten its burden, and the only way to lighten the burden is to write things down. There is no other way, otherwise it will keep pressing me.

98. Friendship is the leaf of the tree of life between two people, just as important as peace, love and health. Two souls don't meet by chance.

99. Because of past or future good deeds, all people will get all the good things they deserve, and because of past or future evil deeds, they will also get all the bad things they deserve.

100, due to inexplicable providence, we searched for you everywhere in vain; You are lonely, you are mysterious, farther than the Ganges or the sunset.