#jorges luis borges

[apoemaday]

Afterglow

by Jorges Luis Borges tr. Paul Weinfield

The sunset is always moving no matter how poor or flashy it is, but still more moving is the last, desperate glow that turns the distant plains to rust when the sun has finally sunk. It hurts us to be with that strange, tense light, that hallucination imposing itself upon space, with our shared fear of shadows and what suddenly ceases when we see our error, as a dream sometimes ceases when we see we are dreaming.

[leprovocazionidisasha]

Non sono gran cosa, ma sono tutto ciò che posso essere.

Jorges Luis Borges🩵

[antigonick]

He thought, as he smoothed the cat's black coat, that this contact was an illusion and that the two beings, man and cat, were as good as separated by a glass, for man lives in time, in succession, while the magical animal lives in the present, in the eternity of the instant.

—Jorge Luis Borges, tr. by Anthony Kerrigan, "The South", in Ficciones

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

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Scattered through the ordinary world there are books and artifacts and perhaps people who are like doorways into impossible realms, of impossible and contradictory truth.

— Jorge Luis Borges

[alive on all channels]

[innocent-but-guilty]

💙

[blackswaneuroparedux]

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

- Jorge Luis Borges

[helenaredamancy]

muddled happiness

1: falsettos || 2: intro: 화양연화 (intro: the most beautiful moment in life) || 3,4: oklahoma! || 5: borges and i || 6, 7: the lesson of the moth by archy || 8,9: 표류 (adrift) || 10: wild geese

[puffsaddy]

i am not sure that i exist, actually. i am all the writers that i have read, all the people that i have met, all the women i have loved; all the cities i have visited.