"Ficciones" Quotes
A collection of mind-bending short stories that blur the lines between reality and fiction.
fiction | 174 pages | Published in 1944
Quotes
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
Mirrors and copulation are abominable, since they both multiply the numbers of men.
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.
In every act of memory, we are the archaeologists of our own brain.
I have always been a night owl in love with the light of the moon.
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
The truth is that we all live by leaving behind; no doubt we all profoundly know that we are immortal and that sooner or later every man will do all things, know all things.
Happiness is a form of courage.
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
