--- title: "1 Borges Quotes By Sergio Chejfec" description: "1 Borges quotes by Sergio Chejfec. Plus more from Sergio Chejfec and more Borges sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/907/sergio-chejfec-24437_books_when-i-use-a-name-or-place-i-want-to-lea_2461155.jpg" --- > [When I use a name or place, I want to leave the reader open to the waterfall of determinacy that it may provoke. And I don't know, but I must mention the name Borges. I try to mention it in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-chejfec/when-i-use-a-name-or-place-i-want-to-leave-the-reader-open-to-the/) [Sergio Chejfec](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-chejfec/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/907/sergio-chejfec-24437_books_when-i-use-a-name-or-place-i-want-to-lea_2461155.jpg) ## Other authors on Borges ## More by Sergio Chejfec > [For me parks are good when first of all, they're not impeccable, and when solitude has appropriated them in such a way that solitude…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-chejfec/for-me-parks-are-good-when-first-of-all-they-re-not-impeccable-and/) [Sergio Chejfec](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-chejfec/) > [I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything. I believe that literature needs to be a machine of illusions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-chejfec/i-don-t-read-novels-that-are-looking-to-convince-me-of-anything-i/) [Sergio Chejfec](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-chejfec/) > [We can speak of politics, ethics, and in this way, speak about the world. But at the same time, it's always in a way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-chejfec/we-can-speak-of-politics-ethics-and-in-this-way-speak-about-the-world/) [Sergio Chejfec](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-chejfec/) > [What I find is that many times when I work with chance, with indeterminacy, I am more open to experience, less prone to a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-chejfec/what-i-find-is-that-many-times-when-i-work-with-chance-with/) [Sergio Chejfec](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-chejfec/) > [“Because sometimes the memory of what one has read tempers the actual experience, and the experience itself becomes, more than something physical, the realization…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-chejfec/because-sometimes-the-memory-of-what-one-has-read-tempers-the-actual/) [Sergio Chejfec](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-chejfec/) > [Novels with a "thesis" don't interest me. They just don't - novels that want to "show" something, that want to "argue" something specific. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-chejfec/novels-with-a-thesis-don-t-interest-me-they-just-don-t-novels-that/) [Sergio Chejfec](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-chejfec/) > [For me, it's a way to find a fiction within a fiction. To find a way to uncover that blunder within the "lie," because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-chejfec/for-me-it-s-a-way-to-find-a-fiction-within-a-fiction-to-find-a-way-to/) [Sergio Chejfec](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-chejfec/) > [At one point I felt a tension between objects, their real, physical lives, and the idea of meaning: the physical, material reality of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-chejfec/at-one-point-i-felt-a-tension-between-objects-their-real-physical/) [Sergio Chejfec](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-chejfec/) > [Not to say that the process assumes anything of "greater" or "lesser" importance, though: it's just more graphic information. Take the surrealists, for example,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-chejfec/not-to-say-that-the-process-assumes-anything-of-greater-or-lesser/) [Sergio Chejfec](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-chejfec/) > [Nostalgia for people, cultures, everything. There's an ability to use these marks to note things that are erased, deleted. Traces are a species of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-chejfec/nostalgia-for-people-cultures-everything-there-s-an-ability-to-use/) [Sergio Chejfec](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-chejfec/) > [In the early days of the Internet, the word "navigation" had this ingrained in it. There really was a sensation of the cyber-flâneur, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-chejfec/in-the-early-days-of-the-internet-the-word-navigation-had-this/) [Sergio Chejfec](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-chejfec/) > [A word, and all the infinite fluctuations it may possess. Like that moment when you know you have something to say, and you know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-chejfec/a-word-and-all-the-infinite-fluctuations-it-may-possess-like-that/) [Sergio Chejfec](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-chejfec/) > [One must distance oneself from the idea of strict realism. It seems to me that real nature doesn't exist anymore, this idea of "the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-chejfec/one-must-distance-oneself-from-the-idea-of-strict-realism-it-seems-to/) [Sergio Chejfec](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-chejfec/) > [“In general, I know that when speaking of private and opposing worlds, one tends to refer to divided, sometimes even irreconcilable facets of personality…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-chejfec/in-general-i-know-that-when-speaking-of-private-and-opposing-worlds/) [Sergio Chejfec](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-chejfec/) > [I find that, for me, it is this concept of borrowed or built life, life on loan, that gets me writing. It's similar to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergio-chejfec/i-find-that-for-me-it-is-this-concept-of-borrowed-or-built-life-life/) [Sergio Chejfec](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergio-chejfec/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/borges/sergio-chejfec/#itemlist", "name": "1 Borges Quotes By Sergio Chejfec", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When I use a name or place, I want to leave the reader open to the waterfall of determinacy that it may provoke. And I don't know, but I must mention the name Borges. I try to mention it in every one of my works. It's a mark, a stamp, a sort of homage to Argentinidad. But it's an homage that works through pat phrases, those stock images that populate his work: the night, labyrinths, libraries. 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