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
religion easier dies
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
originality unfaithful translate
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
spring deeper
Poetry springs from something deeper; it's beyond intelligence.
writing should-have appreciated
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated.
afternoon hours verge
There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
may reaching persons
What I'm really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
should immortal difficult
My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
believe government i-believe
I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
writing language hypothesis
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
book writing criticism
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
loneliness worry doe
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
running destiny long
I...have always known that my destiny was, above all, a literary destiny — that bad things and some good things would happen to me, but that, in the long run, all of it would be converted into words. Particularly the bad things, since happiness does not need to be transformed: happiness is its own end.
dream writing
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
language plausible
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.