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
vanity enemy way
To bless thine enemy is a good way to satisfy thy vanity.
evil upset dignity
There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.
heart winning desire
You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death.
art practice library
To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
farewell men play
To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we'll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
book boys letters
As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.
done ashamed feels
I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done.
future yesterday irrevocable
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
understanding language
You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language?
art self style
I would define the baroque as that style that deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) its own possibilities, and that borders on self-caricature. The baroque is the final stage in all art, when art flaunts and squanders its resources.
order literature causes
In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.
punishment fire islam
Islam asserts that on the unappealable Day of Judgment every perpetrator of the image of a living creature will be raised from the dead with his works, and he will be commanded to bring them to life, and he will fail, and be cast out with them into the fires of punishment.
flight life-is oblivion
Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
hero men world
No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.