Jorge Luis Borges (1899 – 1986)
Argentine writer who is considered one of the foremost literary figures of the 20th century.
Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
Ser conservador es una forma de ser escéptico.
In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
May Heaven exist, even if our place is Hell.
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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.