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
infinity closing
Death is just infinity closing in.
memories museums mirrors
We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
inspirational motivational believe
I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man's diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books... If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
dream book hands
I know of one semibarbarous zone whose librarians repudiate the "vain and superstitious habit" of trying to find sense in books, equating such a quest with attempting to find meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines on the palms of one's hand.
men ignorant corny
To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
writing achievement asking
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.
moon poet duty
I secretly assumed, as poets do, The duty on me to define the moon.
yellow world silver
I live in a grey world, rather like the silver screen world. But yellow stands out.
knowing library guilty
Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.
Everything touches everything.
life-and-death lacking has-beens
Life and death have been lacking in my life.
stories may essentials
Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.
greek states known
I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
flattery contemporary posterity
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.