Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges KBE; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986), was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish-language literature. His best-known books, Ficcionesand El Aleph, published in the 1940s, are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, philosophy, and religion...
NationalityArgentinian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth24 August 1899
Jorge Luis Borges quotes about
wake-up astonishment being-myself
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself
mirrors two labyrinth
It only takes two facing mirrors to build a labyrinth.
warning might incredibles
It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death.
literature ends myth
For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.
beloved lovers without-love
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
dragons ignorant universe
We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.
possibility embrace century
The web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect, or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces "every" possibility. We do not exist in most of them. In some you exist and not I, while in others I do, and you do not, and in yet others both of us exist.
what-matters matter no-matter-what
All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them.
warrior past men
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to more atrocious undertakings; soon there will be no one but warriors and brigands; I give them this counsel: The author of an atrocious undertaking ought to imagine that he has already accomplished it, ought to impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
library paradise kind
Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso / Bajo la especie de una biblioteca. I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.
universe
Each thing implies the universe.
infinity closing
Death is just infinity closing in.
mirrors discovery conjunctions
I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia.
incredibles should premonition
It seemed incredible to me that day without premonitions or symbols should be the one of my inexorable death .