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
past should accomplished
Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
night day-and-night thieves
We have shared out, like thieves, the amazing treasures of days and nights.
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.
thinking forget
There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her.
real reality accepting
We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
memories ends approach
As the end approaches, there are no longer any images from memory - there are only words.
book order serenity
Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically dessicated and preserved.
beloved lovers without-love
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
eye sea yellow
There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
past phases faces
The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all of my instants would be provisional phases, annihilators of the past turned to face the future, and that beyond the episodic, the present, the circumstantial, we were nobody.
dragons ignorant universe
We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.
pathos manage our-lives
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
reality magic details
Then he reflected that reality does not usually coincide with our anticipation of it; with a logic of his own he inferred that to forsee a circumstantial detail is to prevent its happening. Trusting in this weak magic, he invented, so that they would not happen, the most gruesome details.
age firsts done
When you reach my age, you realize you couldn't have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.