Teodora Miclăuș

“And yet, and yet… Denying temporal succession, denying the self, denying the astronomical universe, are apparent desperations and secret consolations. Our destiny … is not frightful by being unreal; it is frightful because it is irreversible and iron-clad. Time is the substance I am made of. 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. The world, unfortunately, is real; I, unfortunately, am Borges.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Historical truth, for him, is not what has happened; it is what we judge to have happened.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

“They seek neither truth nor likelihood; they seek astonishment. They think metaphysics is a branch of the literature of fantasy”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

“Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings