History Quotes / SecretIdentityIdentity

->''[[ShadowArchetype The other one, the one called Borges, is the one things happen to]]. I walk through the streets of Buenos Aires and stop for a moment, perhaps mechanically now, to look at the arch of an entrance hall and the grillwork on the gate; [[SacredCow I know of Borges from the mail and see his name on a list of professors or in a biographical dictionary]]. I like hourglasses, maps, eighteenth-century typography, the taste of coffee and the prose of Stevenson; he shares these preferences, [[LargeHam but in a vain way that turns them into the attributes of an actor]]. It would be an exaggeration to say that ours is a hostile relationship; I live, let myself go on living, so that Borges may contrive his literature, and this literature justifies me. It is no effort for me to confess that he has achieved some valid pages, but those pages cannot save me, perhaps because what is good belongs to no one, not even to him, but rather to the language and to tradition. Besides, [[AuthorexistenceFailure I am destined to perish, definitively]], and only some instant of myself can [[OutlivedHisCreator survive in him]]. Little by little, I am giving over everything to him, though I am quite aware of his perverse custom of falsifying and magnifying things.''\\

->''The other one, the one called Borges, is the one things happen to. I walk through the streets of Buenos Aires and stop for a moment, perhaps mechanically now, to look at the arch of an entrance hall and the grillwork on the gate; I know of Borges from the mail and see his name on a list of professors or in a biographical dictionary. I like hourglasses, maps, eighteenth-century typography, the taste of coffee and the prose of Stevenson; he shares these preferences, but in a vain way that turns them into the attributes of an actor. It would be an exaggeration to say that ours is a hostile relationship; I live, let myself go on living, so that Borges may contrive his literature, and this literature justifies me. It is no effort for me to confess that he has achieved some valid pages, but those pages cannot save me, perhaps because what is good belongs to no one, not even to him, but rather to the language and to tradition. Besides, I am destined to perish, definitively, and only some instant of myself can survive in him. Little by little, I am giving over everything to him, though I am quite aware of his perverse custom of falsifying and magnifying things.''\\
''Spinoza knew that all things long to persist in their being; the stone eternally wants to be a stone and the tiger a tiger. I shall remain in Borges, not in myself (if it is true that I am someone), but I recognize myself less in his books than in many others or in the laborious strumming of a guitar. Years ago I tried to free myself from him and went from the mythologies of the suburbs to the games with time and infinity, but those games belong to Borges now and I shall have to imagine other things. Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.''\\
I do not know which of us has written this page.

-> ''[[FlyingBrick He is the most powerful being on the planet. Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Capable of flying to incredible heights]]. Yes, everything went so well for him that, for a change, [[ThisLoserIsYou he decided to become a loser, and disguised himself as an ordinary common man]]. [[Series/TheAdventuresOfSuperman Superman]]. [[IJustWantToBeSpecial All of us humans want to be like him]], and he, [[IJustWantToBeNormal just wants to be like he sees us]]''.

-->-- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5p1gF1cqoU English translation of the advertisiong of]] The Adventures of Superman by an Argentinian pay-TV channel called Retro, and possibly a TakeThat to [[Film/KillBill Bill's quote above]]

-> ''[[FlyingBrick He is the most powerful being on the planet. Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Capable of flying to incredible heights]]. Yes, everything went so well for him that, for a change, [[ThisLoserIsYou he decided to become a loser, and disguised himself as an ordinary common man]]. [[Series/TheAdventuresOfSuperman Superman]]. [[IJustWantToBeSpecial All of us humans want to be like him]], and he, [[IJustWantToBeNormal just wants to be like he sees us]].

->'''Dick Grayson:''' Does Batman live in Bruce Wayne's basement? \\

-->--'''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOBatmanMovie'''

->"I hear a new apprentice you have, Emperor. Or should I call you ''Darth Sidious''?"

->''"Now possessing ultimate power, Palpatine had no further need to cultivate two identities. Despite his public title of Emperor Palpatine, he was Darth Sidious in thought and action from this point forward."''

-->-- '''Clark/Superman''', ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries''

-->--'''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}''', ''Supergirl vol 2 #1''

->I hear a new apprentice you have, Emperor. Or should I call you ''Darth Sidious''?

->''I hear a new apprentice you have, Emperor. Or should I call you "Darth Sidious"?''

-->--'''[[http://www.starwars.com/databank/palpatine-biography-gallery Star Wars Databank]]''' on '''[[[[Characters/StarWarsEmperorPalpatine Sheev Palpatine]]''', ''Franchise/StarWars''

-->--'''[[http://www.starwars.com/databank/palpatine-biography-gallery Star Wars Databank]]''' on '''Sheev Palpatine''', ''Franchise/StarWars''

->''"I hear a new apprentice you have, Emperor. Or should I call you '''Darth Sidious?'''"''
-->--'''Yoda''' addressing '''[[Characters/StarWarsEmperorPalpatine Emperor Palpatine]]''' by his Sith name, ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''

-->--'''Yoda''' addressing '''Emperor Palpatine''' by his Sith name, ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''

->''"Now possessing ultimate power, Palpatine had no further need to cultivate two identities. Despite his public title of Emperor Palpatine, he was Darth Sidious in thought and action from this point forward."''
-->--'''[[http://www.starwars.com/databank/palpatine-biography-gallery Star Wars Databank]]''' on '''Sheev Palpatine''', ''Franchise/StarWars''

-->--[[http://www.starwars.com/databank/palpatine-biography-gallery Star Wars Databank]] on Sheev Palpatine, ''Franchise/StarWars''

-->--'''Kallen''', ''Anime/CodeGeass''

-->--''Literature/{{Worm}}''

-->--'''[[ComicBook/NormanOsborn Green Goblin]]''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan''

-->--'''Kallen''', ''CodeGeass''