Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges ([x.xe lwis b.xs]) (August 24, 1899 June 14, 1986) was an Argentine writer who is considered to be one of the foremost writers of the 20th century. Best-known in the English speaking world for his short stories and fictive essays, Borges was also a poet, critic, and man of letters.
16 Quotes
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.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.
— Jorge Luis Borges
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
— Jorge Luis Borges
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
— Jorge Luis Borges
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
— Jorge Luis Borges
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
— Jorge Luis Borges
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Life itself is a quotation.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
— Jorge Luis Borges
De ene literatuur verschilt van de andere niet zozeer door de tekst dan wel door de manier waarop zij gelezen wordt.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Een boek dat niet zijn contraboek bevat is onvolledig.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Een schrijver zou nog een keer moeten leven om te zien of hij gewaardeerd wordt.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Klassiek is niet een boek dat per se die of die verdiensten bezit; het is een boek dat de mensengeneraties, door verschillende redenen gedreven, lezen met tevoren vaststaande geestdrift en met een mysterieuze loyaliteit.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Ik heb me altijd ingebeeld dat het paradijs een soort bibliotheek zal zijn.
— Jorge Luis Borges