The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all of my instants would be provisional phases, annihilators of the past turned to face the future, and that beyond the episodic, the present, the circumstantial, we were nobody.
タグ: time, self, provisionality

"Jorge Luis Borges"の他の名言

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
タグ: who, moment, man, life
My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
タグ: carry, out, only, difficult
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
タグ: translation, original, unfaithful
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
タグ: abuse, government, democracy
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
タグ: intellectual, writing, more, reading
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