Jorge Luis Borges Quotes


This felicitous supposition declared that there is only one Individual, and that this indivisible Individual is every one of the separate beings in the universe, and that these beings are the instruments and masks of divinity itself.


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Borges, Jorge Luis. Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings. Edited by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby, New Directions, 1962, p. 12.

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Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges
  • Born: August 24, 1899
  • Died: June 14, 1986
  • Nationality: Argentinian
  • Profession: Writer, Poet, Philosopher, Translator, Editor, Critic, Librarian

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish-language and universal 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, philosophers, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, and mythology. Borges' works have contributed to philosophical literature and the fantasy genre, and have been considered by some critics to mark the beginning of the magic realist movement in 20th century Latin American literature. His late poems converse with such cultural figures as Spinoza, Camões, and Virgil.