#borges

Years later, Dante was to die in Ravenna, as unjustified and alone as any other man. In a dream, God told him the secret purpose of his life and work; Dante, astonished, learned at last who he was and what he was, and he blessed the bitternesses of his life. Legend has it that when he awoke, he sensed that he had received and lost an infinite thing, something he would never be able to recover, or even to descry from afar, because the machine of the world is exceedingly complex for the simplicity of men.

Ok so this came up in one of my uni classes: Jorge Luis Borges once trolled a bunch of ppl by claiming that an ancient Chinese text classified all animals into 14 arbitrary categories. Which one are you?

“Tampoco jugaré a ser una persona feliz, porque lo soy a ratos perdidos. Pero a veces, caminando por la calle, siento una racha de felicidad, y trato de no indagar la razón; porque si lo hago, comprobaré con harta felicidad que me sobran motivos de desventura. Mejor es aceptar con humildad esos dones secretos”.