About Jorge Luis Borges:
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges was an Argentine 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.
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
Jorge Luis BorgesMy undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
Jorge Luis BorgesThe flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
Jorge Luis BorgesReading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
Jorge Luis BorgesA writer always begins by being too complicated—he’s playing at several games at once.
Jorge Luis BorgesI never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done.
Jorge Luis Borges