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
single-mom men life-is
Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
inspirational leadership communication
Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.
love life time
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
angel player discipline
Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels.
book discovery library
The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
reading book sleep
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
reflection mirrors self-improvement
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
inspirational motivational birthday
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
evil spheres ethics
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
men long forever
Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
writing want doe
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
writing want doe
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
dream writing
Writing is only a guided dream.
men air sea
Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.