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
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,
religion easier dies
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
writing want doe
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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.