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Jorge Luis Borges Quotes (124 quotes)
 | “Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.” ―Jorge Luis Borges Source/Notes: Comparing film and stage theatre in The Divine Comedy (1977) |
| “There are people who barely feel poetry, and they are generally dedicated to teaching it.” ―Jorge Luis Borges Source/Notes: Poetry (1977) |
| “The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.” ―Jorge Luis Borges Source/Notes: Shakespeare's Memory, (1983); as translated by Andrew Hurley in Collected Fictions (1998) |
| “Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination will reject it.” ―Jorge Luis Borges Source/Notes: Discussion published in the Columbia Forum and later quoted in Worldwide Laws of Life : 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles (1998) by John Templeton |
| Source/Notes: A History of Eternity in Selected Non-Fictions Vol. 1, (1999), edited by Eliot Weinberger |
| “The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to construct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the others like a Platonic archetype, an object whose virtues are not diminished by the passage of time.” ―Jorge Luis Borges Source/Notes: Note on Walt Whitman [Nota sobre Walt Whitman] - Discussion (1932) |
| “We (the indivisible divinity that works in us) have dreamed the world. We have dreamed it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in space and firm in time, but we have allowed slight, and eternal, bits of the irrational to form part of its architecture so as to know that it is false.” ―Jorge Luis Borges Source/Notes: Avatars of the Tortoise [Avatares de la tortuga] - Discussion (1932) |
| “He transforms all concepts into incommunicable, solidified objects. To refute him is to become contaminated with unreality.” ―Jorge Luis Borges Source/Notes: On F. H. Bradley in Avatars of the Tortoise - Discussion (1932) |
| “I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia.” ―Jorge Luis Borges Source/Notes: First lines - Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (1940) |
| “My undertaking is not difficult, essentially... I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.” ―Jorge Luis Borges Source/Notes: Pierre Menard, Author of The Quixote [Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote] - The Garden of Forking Paths (1942) |
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Jorge Luis Borges
Born: August 24, 1899
Died: June 14, 1986 (aged 86)
Nationality: Argentinian
Occupation: Poet, writer, critic, librarian
Bio: Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges, known as Jorge Luis Borges, was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires. His work embraces the character of unreality in all literature.
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