What can I do to keep you? I give you the hopeless sunsets of poor streets and the moon of rundown suburbs. I give you the sorrow of a person who has been looking at the lonely moon for a long time.

-- "Two English Poems" by Borges

I give you the loyalty of a man who has never had faith.

-- "What can I do to keep you" by Borges

Your body is just time, the time that keeps passing by, you are just every lonely moment.

-- "You Are Not Someone Else" by Borges

What made him feel distant was not the length of time, but the two or three irreversible things.

-- "Waiting" by Borges

When a person dies, it is like water disappearing into the water.

-- "The Other Death" by Borges

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

-- "The Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz" by Borges

The world will change, but I will always remain the same, I thought with sad conceit .

-- "Aleph" by Borges

As usual, I found myself a coward, afraid of bold expectations because of fear of failure.

-- "The Memory of Shakespeare" by Borges

A rose is a rose, and its fragrance is meaningless.

-- Borges

I have accepted those ugly things since I was a child. There are many incompatible things in the world that have to accept each other in order to survive.

-- Borges's "The End of Things"

In his imagination, those dreamy nights were deep, dark pools where he could hide.

-- "The Secret Miracle" by Borges

Excessive hope naturally produces extreme disappointment.

-- "The Library of Babel" by Borges

In the dark night, you have an invisible world and a clear self.

--Borges's "Selected Poems of Borges" Borges' famous sayings

1. Peronism can neither be right nor wrong. The problem is that it has Nothing can be changed.

2. Universities should support us to delve into the things of ancients and others. If it only supports its own and contemporary things, then the university is useless, because it is only extending the functions that the media already fulfills.

3. Tennyson said that if we could understand just a flower, we could understand who we are and what the world is.

4. Everyone says I am a great writer. I was grateful for this strange idea, but I didn't agree with it. In the future some wise man will easily dismiss it and label me a liar or a shoddy guy or both.

5. Jealousy is a very Spanish theme. Those Spaniards are always thinking about jealousy. When they describe something as good, they say: That makes people jealous.

6. Revolution is a widespread superstition and an abuse of statistics.

7. In the past, ammunition was unlimited.

8. The past is the material that constitutes time, so time quickly becomes the past.

9. If you fight like a man, you won't be hanged like a dog.

10. If I am not destined to get that honor, wisdom and happiness, then let others get it. Even if I go to hell, I hope heaven exists.

11. Happiness does not need to be transformed into beauty, but misfortune does.

12. History is more like a form of fiction.

13. The happiness of understanding is far beyond imagination or feeling.

14. Some moralists believe that owning money does not necessarily mean happiness, and other forms of luck may be more direct.

15. Those English idiots are an aesthetically ugly sport: a confrontation between eleven people and eleven other people chasing a ball is not beautiful at all.

16. Women make me miserable. But the happiness I gained was enough to compensate for all the misfortunes. It is better to be in pain and happy than to have no pain or itch.

17. No matter how long or complicated any destiny is, there comes a time when a person permanently knows who he is.

18. God is in a certain letter on a certain page of a certain volume of the 400,000 books in the Clementino Library. My parents and my parents' parents searched for that letter; I searched for it myself until I was blinded.

19. Blindness is a form of loneliness.

20. Poetry requires rhythm. Poetry always remembers that it was first a verbal art before it became a written art, and remember that it was once a song.

21. Time is the substance that makes up what I am doing.

22. Time is the best or even the only anthologist.

23. Fascinating is one of the most important qualities a writer should have.

24. The fact is that we procrastinate everything we can; if we all know that we are immortal, then sooner or later all people will do everything and know everything.

25. He was not writing for posterity, nor for God, because he knew nothing about God's literary preferences. He painstakingly, motionlessly and secretly creates an invisible maze within the realm of time.

26. The angel said to me that the sheep’s fur was not the color of the tiger, and Satan said to me that the powerful God wanted it to be that color, using my skills and dyes. Now I know that angels and Satan are confusing black and white, and all colors are abominable.

27. Literature is nothing but guiding a dream.

28. My story begins in Buenos Aires, which to me is as eternal as water and air.

29. I am lonely and the mirror is empty.

30. We call the infinite operation of thousands of changing causes destiny.

31. We accept reality easily, perhaps because nothing in our intuition is true.

32. We often shed tears of sympathy for the misfortunes of novel characters, and as a result, our own misfortunes are even more sad.

33. The pagans we should fear are those who can be confused with the Orthodox.

34. I believe that one day we will no longer need the government.

35. I think we should invent a game that no one can win.

36. I sometimes guess that the only thing that is not a mystery is happiness, because it only needs to be proven by itself.

37. Ignorant people think that infinite drawing of lots requires infinite time. In fact, this is not the case, as long as time is divided into infinite subdivisions.

38. What a person does is the same as all people. Therefore, it is not unfair to say that a disobedience in the garden has corrupted all mankind. It is not unfair that the crucifixion of the Jews was enough to save all mankind.

39. The people running a large company must believe that it is already complete and impose upon it a future that is as indelible as the past.

40. Doubt is one of the names of wisdom.

41. Heroes fight like this, with admirable hearts and fearless hearts, and the steel swords in their hands are extremely sharp. They just want to kill their opponents or die on the battlefield.

42. Some people can’t imagine a world without birds; some people can’t imagine a world without water; and for me, I can’t imagine a world without books.

43. Language is some symbols that require different memories.

44. Be careful when picking your enemy, as he may just look the part.

45. In reality, in history, every time a person faces a choice, he must choose one and then give up several others; and this is not like the one that belongs to hope and forgetfulness, which has an artistic meaning. In the concept of time with multiple possibilities.

46. War, like women, is a touchstone for men.

47. Only autocratic regimes promote ignorance. Borges' Quotations

1. I never talk about betrayal and forgiveness. Forgetting is the only betrayal and forgiveness.

2. Question is one of the names of wisdom.

3. Democracy is a widely spread superstition and an abuse of statistics.

4. Some communists hold this view: anti-communists are fascists. This is as incomprehensible as saying that a person is either a Catholic or a Mormon.

5. Everyone says I am a great writer. I was grateful for this strange idea, but I didn't agree with it. In the future some wise man will easily dismiss it and label me a liar or a shoddy guy or both.

6. Blindness is a form of loneliness.

7. What we call unfortunate is our ignorance of the complex device of chance.

8. In the past, ammunition was unlimited.

9. For me, Buenos Aires started out as nonsense. I regard it as eternal, just like water and air.

10. Fascinating... is one of the most important qualities a writer should have.

11. Besides death, are there any other ways to threaten others? The most interesting and original one is to threaten him with immortality.

12. Correcting the past is not about correcting a single thing: it is about eliminating the consequences that tend toward infinity.

13. In reality, in history, every time a person faces a choice, he must choose one and then give up several others; and this is not like the one that belongs to hope and forgetfulness, which has an artistic meaning. In the concept of time with multiple possibilities.

14. The fact is that we procrastinate everything we can; if we all know that we are immortal, then sooner or later all people will do everything and understand everything.

15. I believe that one day we will no longer need the government.

16. Football is popular because stupidity is also popular.

17. Mirrors and sexual intercourse are abominable because they both increase the number of humans.

18. Jealousy is a very Spanish theme. Those Spaniards are always thinking about jealousy. When they describe something as good, they say: That makes people jealous.

19. Beauty is such an elegant mystery that cannot be explained clearly by psychology and rhetoric.

20. All theories are legitimate, but none of them are important. What matters is what you do with them.

21. It's strange that people never blame England for filling the world with stupid games, such as purely physical sports like football. Football is one of England's greatest crimes.

22. Peronism can neither be right nor wrong. The problem is that it cannot be changed.

23. Only autocratic regimes promote ignorance.

24. When a person finds that another person is unique, he or she falls in love with him or her.

25. Over the years, I have discovered that beauty is as common as happiness. It would be impossible to live a day without being in heaven for even one moment.

26. Death is life lived. Life is death on the road.

27. Tennyson said that if we could understand just a flower, we could understand who we are and what the world is.

28. Women make me unlucky. But the happiness I gained was enough to compensate for all the misfortunes. It is better to be in pain and happy than to have no pain or itch.

29. My only two hobbies are: reading the Encyclopedia Britannica and not reading Enrique Larreta (the famous Argentinian writer and the representative writer of Latin American modernism).

30. The pagans we should be afraid of are those who can be confused with the Orthodox.

31. History is more like a form of fiction.

32. We are our memories, we are an incoherent fantasy museum, a lot of broken mirrors.

33. No matter how long or complicated any kind of destiny is, there is actually a time when a person knows who he is forever.

34. Among all human inventions, the most amazing is undoubtedly the book. Other inventions are simply extensions of the human body. Microscopes and telescopes are extensions of vision; telephones are extensions of sound; then we have plows and swords, extensions of arms. But books are something else: books are expansions of memory and imagination.

35. War, like women, is a touchstone for men.

36. Time is the substance that makes up what I am doing.

37. I think we should invent a game that no one can win.

38. The people running a large company must believe that it is already complete and impose on it a future that is as indelible as the past.

39. I committed the worst crime a person can commit - I was unhappy.

40. When a person writes, he is also a reader.

41. Language is some symbols that require unique memory.

42. I sometimes guess that the only thing that is not mysterious is happiness, because it only needs to be proven by yourself.

43. Poetry needs rhythm. Poetry always remembers that it was first a verbal art before it became a written art, and remember that it was once a song.

44. We accept reality easily, perhaps because nothing in our intuition is true.

45. The distance in the past was longer because space is measured in time.

46. I am lonely and there is no one in the mirror.

47. Human beings made of dust and time have a shorter life span than frivolous tunes made only of time.

48. Literature is nothing but guiding a dream. Universities should support us in studying the ancients and others. If it only supports its own and contemporary things, then the university is useless, because it is only extending the functions that the media already fulfills.

49. I understood many years ago that there is nothing in this world that is not a potential origin of hell; a face, a word, a compass, a smell of smoke, if not Trying to forget could drive him crazy.

50. Those English idiots... an aesthetically ugly sport: the confrontation between eleven people and eleven others chasing a ball is not beautiful at all.

51. Dante is a symbol of humanity, Beatrice is a symbol of faith, and Virgil is a symbol of reason.

52. Some people cannot imagine a world without birds; some people cannot imagine a world without water; and for me, I cannot imagine a world without books.

53. Be careful when picking your enemy, because he may just look the part.

54. I think both hell and heaven are too much. People's actions don't deserve that much.

55. Time is the best or even the only anthologist.

56. It is much easier to die for your beliefs than to live completely for it.

57. In this sense, hooliganism (nationalism) is the worst of evils. It divides people, destroys the good side of human nature, and points to the uneven distribution of wealth. - Over three days, in 1984, two hundred and fifty writers, painters, musicians, philosophers, psychoanalysts, scientists, economists and entrepreneurs from Japan, Italy, France, the United States and many other countries The family gathered in Tokyo to discuss some important global issues, including nationalism. Borges pointed out that nationalism is dividing the world.

58. I always think: Heaven is probably like a library!

59. Happiness does not need to be transformed into beauty, but misfortune does.

60. The things we avoid talking about are very much like ourselves.

61. I am willing to be a brave person. My dentist is pretty sure I'm not that person.

62. Give thanks to music (the mysterious form of time). 15 classic quotes by Borges

1. The best place to hide a leaf is in the woods - "The Book of Sand"

2. All literature talks about one thing The thing is, that’s how hard life is.

3. Friendship is better than love because it does not require any proof. Once a friendship is established, it demands nothing and it will grow. ----"Borges's Conversations"

4. Death is life lived, life is death on the road.

5. Now it’s time for us to pay the price. I give you a mirror and a golden mask; here is the third and final gift. "The king took a dagger and placed it in the poet's right hand. ----"Mirror and Mask"

6. Falling in love with someone is like creating a religion, and the god believed in in that religion is unreliable. Dante's affection for Beatrice reached the level of idolatry. This is an irrefutable fact. She sometimes laughed at and sometimes ignored Dante. These facts have been recorded in "New Life". Some argue that those facts are symbols of other facts. If so, we are even more convinced of Dante's unfortunate and superstitious love. After Beatrice died, Dante lost her forever. In order to relieve his sadness, he invented the plot of his encounter with her. I think he adopted a trilogy structure in The Divine Comedy in order to intersperse that encounter. He recalled the sad situations in which he often dreamed of encountering obstacles. ----"Borges Oral"

7. A person can be the enemy of other people and the enemy of other people at other times, but he cannot become the enemy of a country and cannot compete with others. Fireflies, gardens, running water, and wind are enemies. ----"The Garden of Forking Paths"

8. If there is a paradise in this world, it should be like a bookstore.

9. I slide down your twilight like the piety that is tired of sliding down a slope, and the young night is like a wing on your roof.

10. When a person dies, it is like water disappearing into water - "Another Death"

11. Tennyson said, if we can understand a flower , we will know who we are and what the world is. He might want to say that things, no matter how minute, involve the history of the universe and its infinite causal relationships. He may want to say that every image in the visible world is complete, just as Schopenhauer said, everyone's will is complete. The mystical philosopher believed that man was a microcosm, a symbolic mirror of the universe; according to Tennyson, so was everything. Everything, even that intolerable Zaire. Idealists say that life is a dream, and life and dream are strictly the same word; I will classify hundreds of superficial phenomena into one superficial phenomenon, and classify an extremely complex dream into a very simple dream. Others may dream that I am crazy, but I dream of Zaire. When everyone in the world is thinking about Zaire day and night, then which one is a dream and which one is reality, the world or Zaire? you? ----"Aleph"

12. If you fight like a man, you won't be hanged like a dog.

13. He believes that time has countless series, and divergent, converging and parallel times weave into an ever-growing and intricate web.

The network of times that come together, diverge, intersect, or never interfere with each other encompasses all possibilities. Most of the time, we don't exist; some of the time, there is you but not me; some of the time, there is me but not you; and some of the time, you and I both exist. ---- "The Garden of Forking Paths"

14. I committed the worst crime a person can commit and I am not happy.

15. Water is The useless tears I shed when I miss you——"Another, the Same"

16. Surprisingly (I don’t think this has been discovered so far), The representatives elected by various countries do not look very much like these countries. For example, some people would think that Britain should choose Dr. Johnson as its representative. However, this is not the case. Britain chose Shakespeare, and Shakespeare (let us say so) is the least British writer with British characteristics. The characteristic of British writers is that their meanings are implicit, that is, their meanings are not stated. On the contrary, Shakespeare is good at using exaggeration in metaphors. It would not surprise us in the least if someone said that Shakespeare was an Italian or a Jew. ----"Borges' Oral Narration"

17. There is a vast wilderness in the morning, and the smell of horses during the day. For him, it was a new and sometimes cruel life, but his blood already had the tendency of this kind of life, because just like other nations worshiped and had a premonition of the ocean, we (also introduced this symbol people) yearn for the boundless plains that echo under the hooves of horses. Before Otálola died, he suddenly understood: From the first day, these people had betrayed him and sentenced him to death so that he could get women, status and victory, because they regarded him as a dead person because he was in class. In Della's eyes, he had long been a fish in the bottom of the pot. ----"Aleph"

18. Insomnia is knowing that one should not wake up alone when others are sleeping alone. It is the desire to enter the dreamland but cannot fall asleep. It is the feeling of being alive and continuing to live. Fear is ignorance and staying up until dawn.

19. Literature can’t make you angry, but it can heal you. Literature makes people’s hearts softer and more elastic, allowing them to endure losses and tolerate suffering. Because all literary works tell a story: life is bitter

20. Schopenhauer said that everything a person can encounter from the moment he is born to the moment he dies is determined in advance by himself. Therefore, all oversights are carefully considered, all encounters are prearranged, all humiliations are punishments, all failures are mysterious victories, and all deaths are suicides. There is no better consolation than the idea that our misfortunes are self-inflicted; this unique theology reveals to us a secret purpose that wonderfully identifies us with God. ----"Aleph"

21. I don't know whether it was me or Borges who wrote these words. ----"Borges and Me"

22. So waking up is probably another dream, and dreaming that you are not dreaming. And sleep is nothing but death that returns at night.

23. What can I do to keep you? I give you the thin streets, the despairing sunset, and the moon in the wilderness. I give you the sadness of a person who has been looking at the lonely moon for a long time. I give you my loneliness, my darkness, and the hunger of my heart. I try to use confusion, Danger and failure will impress you——"What can I do to keep you"

24. The storyteller in the Arabian folk tale collection "One Thousand and One Nights". According to legend, the king of Sasan killed the queen because he hated her for being similar to others. From then on, he married a girl every day and killed her the next morning. In order to save the innocent woman, Scheherazade, the daughter of the prime minister, voluntarily married the king and told stories every night to arouse the king's interest and avoid being killed. Her story tells the story of One Thousand and One Nights. ----"The Garden of Forking Paths"

25. When a person dies, it is like water disappearing into the water. "Another Death" by Borges ---- "Another Death"

26. What connects us is not love but fear. Perhaps it is for this reason that I love you so much.

27. The intricate intertwining of conspiracy and eternity of time. Admit it, no matter what choice you make, there are still countless possibilities. We are just one way out of the maze. There are still countless ways, but there is only one ending: death. Maybe it is the end, maybe it is just a wormhole. Towards another starting point - "The Garden of Forking Paths"

28. Oh, God, even if I am trapped in a nut shell, I still think I am the king of infinite space. Hamlet Act 2 Scene 2 They will teach us that eternity is the present stillness, what the philosophical schools call the freezing of time; but this is not understood by them or by anyone else, any more than by the infinite expanse of place. The solidification of space is the same. ----"Aleph"

29. Any language is an alphabet of symbols. The use of language must be based on the past experience of the interlocutor; my shameful memory is simply How could I convey that to others without being able to include that infinite Aleph? ----"Aleph"

30. If I were indeed a poet, I would think that every moment of life is beautiful, even in some moments that do not seem beautiful. . But in the end, memory makes it all beautiful.

----"Borges Conversations"