“With relief, with humiliation, with terror, he understood that he too was a mere appearance, dreamt by another.”
Source: Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Jorge Luis Borges213
Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator… 1899–1986Related quotes
Michael Korda (1933) British writer
As quoted in Quote Unquote (A Handbook of Quotations) (2005) by M. P. Singh, p. 141
Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) English painter, specialising in portraits
Discourse no. 6, delivered on December 10, 1774; vol. 1, p. 150.
Discourses on Art
John Pratt (1657–1725) English judge and politician
King v. Chancellor, &c, of the University of Cambridge (1720), 1 Str. Rep. 564.
Hadewijch (1200–1260) 13th-century Dutch poet and mystic
Visions
Context: Then he came from the altar, showing himself as a child. And that child had the very same appearance that he had in his first three years. And he turned to me and from the ciborium he took his body in his right hand and in his left hand he took a chalice that seemed to come from the altar, but I know not where it came from. Thereupon he came in the appearance and the clothing of the man he was on that day when he first gave us his body, that appearance of a human being and a man, showing his sweet and beautiful and sorrowful face, and approaching me with the humility of the one who belongs entirely to another. Then he gave himself to me in the form of the sacrament, in the manner to which people are accustomed. Then he gave me to drink from the chalice in the manner and taste to which people are accustomed. Then he came to me himself and took me completely in his arms and pressed me to him. And all my limbs felt his limbs in the full satisfaction that my heart and my humanity desired. Then I was externally completely satisfied to the utmost satiation.
“He hated being filled with terror. It was embarrassing.”
Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus
Source: The Blood of Olympus