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
bound conception create fact future work writers
The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.
stones sand ifs
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
mirrors fatherhood illusion
The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
ignorant may shameless
We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
sunset rose saws
I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the colour of a rose in Bengal.
unforgivable-sin splendor sin
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor
divinity mask individual
This felicitous supposition declared that there is only one Individual, and that this indivisible Individual is every one of the separate beings in the universe, and that these beings are the instruments and masks of divinity itself.
superficial-things opinion superficial
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone
yellow world silver
I live in a grey world, rather like the silver screen world. But yellow stands out.
literature
One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.
certainty written
The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.
life-and-death lacking has-beens
Life and death have been lacking in my life.
greek states known
I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
flight life-is oblivion
Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.