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
art remember pronunciation
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
procrastination men truth-is
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
inspirational-life single-mom men
Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment-the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is." "Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment-the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
book home temptation
Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies — for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry — I say to myself, “What a pity I can’t buy that book, for I already have a copy at home.
character fool tricks
Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
happens things-happen
Only in the present do things happen.
reality planes novel
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
dark blind poet
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
book simple literature
Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not.
may gaps inevitable
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
life doe granted
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
space may infinite
If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
father next-day feelings
Emma dropped the paper. Her first impression was of a weak feeling in her stomach and in her knees; then of blind guilt, of unreality, of coldness, of fear; then she wished that it were already the next day. Immediately afterwards she realized that that wish was futile because the death of her father was the only thing that had happened in the world, and it would go on happening endlessly.
father names library
If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library,