Library of Borges: Vol. 3

I was born on August 24, 1899. I'm happy about this because I like the nineteenth century very much, although it could be said to the detriment of the nineteenth century that it led to the twentieth century, which I find less admirable.

from "First Conversation"
in Seven Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges

Library of Borges: Vol. 2

What is a divine mind? the reader will perhaps inquire. There is not a theologian who does not define it; I prefer an example. The steps a man takes from the day of his birth until that of his death trace in time an inconceivable figure. The Divine Mind intuitively grasps that form immediately, as men do a triangle. This figure (perhaps) has its given function in the economy of the universe.

from "The Mirror of Enigmas"
in Labyrinths

Library of Borges: Vol. 1

Music, states of happiness, mythology, faces belabored by time, certain twilights and certain places try to tell us something, or have said something we should not have missed, or are about to say something; this imminence of a revelation which does not occur is, perhaps, the aesthetic phenomenon.

from "The Wall and the Books"
in Labyrinths