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
dream thinking may
I wonder if I have woven through dreams the sexual strife. I don't think so. But after all, my business is to weave dreams. I suppose I may be allowed to choose the material.
country thinking may
I think it's all to the good that a writer shouldn't be too famous. Because, in a country where a writer may be famous, he may be pandering to the mob, celebrity and so on.
intellectual may stuff
I'm not interested in the fact that a writer may label himself as being intellectual or anti-intellectual. l'm really interested in the stuff he's turning out.
stories may essentials
Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.
reality interesting may
Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not.
rose may eternity
He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
different may metaphor
It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.
fighting expression may
The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
ignorant may shameless
We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
may gaps inevitable
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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.
may reaching persons
What I'm really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
heaven may hell
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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.