1. When a person dies, it's like water disappearing into water.
-Another Death by Borges
2. Any fate, however long and complicated, is actually only reflected in a moment: the moment when people fully realize who they really are.
—— The Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz by Borges
3. Human memory is not an addition, it is a mixture of possibilities with unclear meaning.
—— The Memory of Shakespeare by Borges
4. When the details of things are forgotten, it is easy to be blurred. The example of the threshold is very typical: when beggars often go, the threshold always exists, but after beggars die, the threshold disappears. Sometimes, a few birds or a horse can save the ruins of a stepped theater.
—— Borges's Fiction Collection
5. Like all writers, he evaluates others' achievements by their completed works, but asks others to evaluate himself by his conceived or planned works.
—— The Secret Miracle by Borges
6. Since the day I had knowledge and understanding, I have accepted those so-called ugly things since I was a child. In fact, there are many things that are out of place in the world that are very unbearable, but in order to survive, people have to accept each other.
-Borges's unfinished business
7. Once the goal is achieved, time will stop, or to be more precise, what happens later will be irrelevant.
—— The Book of the Sand by Borges
8. We should not forget that for primitive magical thinking, a name is not just a symbol of one's will, but a vital part of the overall concept established by this symbol.
-Borges's Notes on Art
9. People who do heinous things should assume that it has been completed and should regard the future as irreparable as the past.
—— Borges's Garden with Branched Paths
1. A person can be the enemy of others, and can be the enemy of others at another moment, but he cannot be the enemy of a country, nor can he be the enemy of fireflies, gardens, running water and wind.
-Borges's Garden with Bifurcated Paths
11. There are countless series of time, and divergent, convergent and parallel time are woven into a growing and complicated net. A network of times that are close to each other, divergent, staggered, or never interfere with each other contains all the possibilities.
—— Borges's Garden with Bifurcated Paths
12. Intricate interweaving of intrigue and timelessness. Admit it, no matter what choice we make, there are still countless possibilities. We are just a 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 leading to another starting point.
-Borges's Garden with Bifurcated Paths
13. Most of the time, we don't exist; At some time, there is you without me; In some time, there is me without you; In a little more time, you and I will exist. At this moment, an accidental opportunity makes you come to the house; At another time, you walked through the garden and found me dead; At another moment, I said what I said so far, but I was a mistake and a ghost.
-Borges's Garden with Bifurcated Paths
14. There is nothing more complicated than thinking, so we enjoy it tirelessly.
-Borges's Immortality
15. Immortality is insignificant; All living things can live forever except human beings, because they don't know what death is.
-Borges's Immortality
16. Due to past or future good deeds, all people will get all due rewards, and due to past or future bad deeds, they will also get all due rewards.
-Borges's Immortality
17. All fictions are fabricated, and it is important to feel that those fictions come from sincere fantasies.
-Borges's Private Library
18. The world is a maze, so there is no need to build another one.
-Alef by Borges
19. Any language is an alphabet of symbols, and the use of language should be based on the past experience of the speaker.
-Alef by Borges
2. You will go back endlessly, and when you really wake up, you will be dead. People will gradually mix with his experience; In the long run, man is his situation.
Let the mystery written on tiger skin die with me. A person who has seen the universe and its clear intention will not consider a person and his trivial happiness and disaster, even though that person is himself.
-Alef by Borges
21. Friendship is the leaf of the tree of life between two people, just as important as peace, love and health. Two souls will not meet by chance.
-Borges's Tree of Friends
22. During the journey of life, we will meet many people who can make us feel happy. Some people will walk side by side with us and witness the ebb and flow of the tide; Some people just get along with us for a short time, and we all call them friends. There are many kinds of friends, just like a tree, and each leaf is a friend.
-Borges's Tree of Friends
23. Every passer-by in our life is unique. They will leave some marks on themselves and take away some of our breath.
I need you, the leaf of my life tree, just like I need peace, love and health, now and forever.
some people will take away a lot, while others will leave nothing behind. This just proves that two souls will not meet by chance.
—— Borges's Tree of Friends