Jorge Luis Borges Quotes About Labyrinth

Quotes about: Labyrinth

• The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Inspirational, Forever, Labyrinth

• There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Labyrinth, Needs, Universe

  Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley (2004). “Aleph and other stories”, Penguin Classics

• The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Labyrinth, Minotaur, Existence

  "The Aleph" by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Andrew Hurley, 1949.

• A labyrinth of symbols... An invisible labyrinth of time.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Time, Labyrinth, Invisible

  "The Garden of Forking Paths". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1942.

• A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and individuals. A short time before he dies, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the lineaments of his own face.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Horse, Stars, Men

  Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley (2004). “Aleph and other stories”, Penguin Classics

• A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Men, Drawing, Labyrinth

  Sean Kernan, Jorge Luis Borges (1999). “The secret books”, Leete'S Island Books

• It only takes two facing mirrors to build a labyrinth.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Mirrors, Two, Labyrinth

• I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future . . . I felt myself to be, for an unknown period of time, an abstract perceiver of the world.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Past, Labyrinth, World

  Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East Irby (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.23, New Directions Publishing

• I suppose every poet has his own private mythology. Maybe he's unaware of it. People tell me that I have evolved a private mythology of tigers, of blades, of labyrinths, and I"m unaware of the fact this is so. My readers are finding it all the time. But I think perhaps that is the duty of poet.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Thinking, People, Labyrinth

  Source: thefloatinglibrary.com

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