{"author":"Jorge Luis Borges","author_id":"Jorge+Luis+Borges","total_quotes":134,"quotes":[{"text":"The image of the Lord has been replaced by a mirror.","author":"Jorge Luis Borges","tags":["religious"],"id":1995,"author_id":"Jorge+Luis+Borges"},{"text":"We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.","author":"Jorge Luis Borges","tags":["change","ignorance","memory"],"id":2148,"author_id":"Jorge+Luis+Borges"},{"text":"God, in the dream, illumined the animal's brutishness and he understood the reasons, and accepted his destiny; but when he awoke there was only a dark resignation, a valiant ignorance, for the machinery of the world is far too complex for the simplicity of a wild beast.Years later, Dante was dying in Ravenna, as unjustified and as lonely as any other man. In a dream, God declared to him the secret purpose of his life and work; Dante, in wonderment, knew at last who and what he was and blessed the bitterness of his life....Upon waking, he felt that he had received and lost an infinite thing, something that he would not be able to recuperate or even glimpse, for the machinery of the world is much too complex for the simplicity of a man.","author":"Jorge Luis Borges","tags":["evil"],"id":8838,"author_id":"Jorge+Luis+Borges"},{"text":"There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others.I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.","author":"Jorge Luis Borges","tags":["ethics","infinity","philosophy"],"id":9223,"author_id":"Jorge+Luis+Borges"},{"text":"Reading . . . Is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.","author":"Jorge Luis Borges","tags":["intellectualism","reading"],"id":10777,"author_id":"Jorge+Luis+Borges"},{"text":"Ferrari: How odd, Borges, it seems that we are talking constantly through memory. Sometimes, our conversations remind me of a dialogue between two memories.Borges: In fact, that’s what it is. If we are something, we are our past, aren’t we? Our past is not what can be recorded in a biography or in the newspapers. Our past is our memory. That memory can be hidden or inaccurate—it doesn’t matter. It’s there, isn’t it? It can be a lie but that lie becomes part of our memory, part of us. (Conversations, Vol. 1).","author":"Jorge Luis Borges","tags":["memory"],"id":10831,"author_id":"Jorge+Luis+Borges"},{"text":"There is nothing but quotations left for us. Our language is a system of quotations.","author":"Jorge Luis Borges","tags":["language","quotation"],"id":13763,"author_id":"Jorge+Luis+Borges"},{"text":"Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on meand treating me badly.","author":"Jorge Luis Borges","tags":["characters","writing"],"id":18571,"author_id":"Jorge+Luis+Borges"},{"text":"Novels include padding; I think padding may be an essential part of the novel, for all I know.","author":"Jorge Luis Borges","tags":["efficiency","humor","novels"],"id":20780,"author_id":"Jorge+Luis+Borges"},{"text":"One of the schools in Tlön has reached the point of denying time. It reasons that the present is undefined, that the future has no other reality than as present hope, that the past is no more than present memory.","author":"Jorge Luis Borges","tags":["argentian-","ficciones","fictions","metafiction","time"],"id":34992,"author_id":"Jorge+Luis+Borges"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":134,"pages":14,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}