Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius QUOTES

1 " The metaphysicians of Tlön are not looking for truth, nor even for an approximation of it; they are after a kind of amazement. "

― Jorge Luis Borges , Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

3 " The critics often invent authors; they select two dissimilar works - the Tao Te Ching and the 1001 Nights, say - attribute them to the same writer and then determine most scrupulously the psychology of this interesting homme de lettres... "

― Jorge Luis Borges , Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

5 " I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia. "

― Jorge Luis Borges , Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius