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
dream men self
I, who have been so many men in vain, want to be one man, myself alone. From out of a whirlwind the voice of God replied: I am not, either. I dreamed the world the way you dreamed your work, my Shakespeare: one of the forms of my dream was you, who, like me, are many and one.
concept destroyer empire limited whose
There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.
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.
language plausible
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
life time rivers
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
reading book sleep
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
stones sand ifs
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
single-mom men life-is
Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
reflection mirrors self-improvement
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
two eight six
No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
labyrinth needs universe
There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
life cities people
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
pride pages boast
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.
writing laziness products
A writer's work is the product of laziness.