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
writing laziness products
A writer's work is the product of laziness.
labyrinth needs universe
There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
life time rivers
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
life cities people
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
beautiful falling-in-love why-not
I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
mean world may
Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
truth mind unwilling
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
doubt
La duda es uno de los nombres de la inteligencia.
two eight six
No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
inspirational forever labyrinth
The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line
soccer stupidity
Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
men new-day soldier
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
stones sand ifs
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
missing experience values
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.