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
canada far-away
Canada is so far away it hardly exists.
errors mirrors earth
The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
book cities pieces
I confess that I have not cleared a path through all seven hundred pages, I confess to having examined only bits and pieces, and yet I know what it is, with that bold and legitimate certainty with which we assert our knowledge of a city, without ever having been rewarded with the intimacy of all the many streets it includes.
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.
superficial-things opinion superficial
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone
book shelves standing-there
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
confused orthodoxy should
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
sea idiom decipher
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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.
embrace century approach
This web of time--the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect or ignore eachother through the centuries--embrace every posibility.
dream writing
All writing is dreaming
labyrinth minotaur existence
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth .
thinking people important
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
morning vegetables desire
The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part of the authorities to act slowly and impersonally, in the manner of planets or vegetables.