1.
What made him feel distant was not time, but two or three irreparable things.
- Borges, "Waiting"
2.
Any fate, no matter how long and complex, is actually reflected in only one moment: the moment when people realize who they really are.
— Borges, The Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruise
3.
Sunsets are always unsettling, whether they are gorgeous or poor,
But even more disturbing is the last glint of despair.
It makes the original wild rust, at this moment the horizon can no longer remain, the hustle and bustle of the slanting sun and conceit.
- Borges, "Afterglow"
4.
Therefore, all negligence is well thought out,
All encounters and encounters are pre-agreed, and all humiliation is punishment,
All defeat is a mysterious victory, and all death is suicide.
- Borges, Deutsches Requiem
5.
There is a certain loneliness in that piece of gold,
On many nights, the moon was not the moon that the ancestor Adam saw.
In the long years, the people of the night watch have filled her with ancient sorrow. Look at her, she is your mirror.
- Borges, "The Moon"
6.
Anything that happens is a meaningful and unpredictable catalytic catalysis of the past, a deduction from a chain of cause and effect. Of course, there is no initial cause, and each cause is the effect of another cause. Everything points to infinity.
- "Borges Talk"
7.
You are God, the music displayed in my blind eyes, the heavenly vaults, the rivers, the angels, the deep roses, the secret and the endless.
- "Deep Rose"
8.
I thought to myself that one can be the enemy of others, the enemy of others for a period of time, but not of a region, of fireflies, of words, of gardens, of water, of wind.
- "The Garden where the Path Bifurcates"
9.
Tonight's universe has a forgotten vastness and fanatical precision, and I look forward in vain, to the symbolism and disintegration before falling asleep, the dregs-colored clouds that make the sky look vulgar and bring dawn to my closed eyes.
- "Insomnia"
10.
I made the biggest mistake a man could make. I have never been able to be happy. My parents raised me and counted on me to have a strong and beautiful life. I failed to live up to their hard work, and their ardent hopes were not fulfilled. They gave me courage, but I didn't become a brave person.
- "Guilt"