Jorge Luis Borges Quotes about Labyrinth

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It only takes two facing mirrors to build a labyrinth.

It only takes two facing mirrors to build a labyrinth.

Jorge Luis Borges

Mirrors, Two, 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

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.

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 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

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

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