Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

Argentijns writer

Lived from: 1899 - 1986

Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagArgentina

Born: 24 august 1899 Died: 14 june 1986

  • My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.

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  • Every writer ''creates'' his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
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  • 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.
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  • I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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  • Life itself is a quotation.
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  • 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.
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  • My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
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  • 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.
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  • The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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  • The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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What are the most famous quotes from Jorge Luis Borges?

The two most famous quotes from Jorge Luis Borges are:

  • "Every writer ''creates'' his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future."
  • "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."

When did Jorge Luis Borges live?

Jorge Luis Borges was born in 1899 and died in the year 1986.