Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

Jorge Luis Borges — Argentinian Poet born on August 24, 1899, died on June 14, 1986

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges KBE (/ˈbɔrhɛs/; Spanish: audio (help·info); 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986), was an Argentinian short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature. His work embraces the "character of unreality in all literature". His best-known books, Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph (The Aleph), published in the 1940s, are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, philosophy, and religion. Literary critics have described Borges as Latin America's monumental writer... (wikipedia)

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.

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

Life itself is a quotation.