Jorge Luis Borges is the author of works such as El Aleph , Ficciones or El libro de arena. He was born in Buenos Aires on August 24, 1899 and it is considerate one of the most prominent writers of the twentieth century . His works have been read, analyzed and studied and in many of them we find great reflections and phrases. Now let us know better, the most important works and phrases of Jorge Luis Borges
The most important works and phrases of Jorge Luis Borges
His writing career, which included the publication of numerous volumes of essays and poems and the founding of three literary magazines , ended with a biography.
In 1938 he suffered a serious head injury after a major accident. Despite this, in the next eight years he wrote his best fantasy works .
Among his great works we can mention, ” Universal History of Infamy”, “The Aleph” and “Fictions” thus becoming one of the reference authors of magical realism, while poetic collections such as “Fervor of Buenos Aires” affirm it as a lyricist of the deepest ultraism.
Let’s review some of Borges’s best phrases, all taken from his works:
- «To be immortal is trivial; Except for man, all creatures are, because they ignore death; the divine, the terrible, the incomprehensible, is knowing oneself immortal » – The Aleph.
- « The Angel told me that the rams were not the color of tigers, the Satan told me that the Mighty One wanted them to be and used my cunning and my purple. Now I know that the Angel and the Satan erred the truth and that all color is abhorrent »- Universal history of infamy.
- ” Glory is a misunderstanding and perhaps the worst ” – Fictions.
- «I understood that the poet’s work was not in poetry; he was in the invention of reasons for poetry to be admirable ».- The Aleph.
- “ This is the end of the story of the forty-seven loyal men — except there is no end, because the other men, who are perhaps not loyal, but who will never completely lose hope of being so, will continue to honor them with words . »- Universal history of infamy.
- ” Throughout the centuries and latitudes, names, dialects, faces change, but not the eternal antagonists .” -The Aleph.
- « If honor and wisdom and happiness are not for me, let them be for others. That heaven exists, although my place is hell ».- Fictions.
- « The books are also different. The fictional ones cover a single plot, with all the permutations imaginable. Those of a philosophical nature invariably contain the thesis and the antithesis, the rigorous pro and con of a doctrine. A book that does not contain its counter-book is considered incomplete . ” -Fictions.
Other phrases by Jorge Luis Borges
In addition to the phrases that we have found in Borges’s works , the famous author pronounced others throughout his life that are worth remembering:
- “There should be a game in which everyone wins.”
- “One is in love when one realizes that another person is unique.”
- I wish I was braver. I know this is not the case because my dentist reminds me every time I visit him.
- “At first I believed that Eden was like a library.”
- “Never and always: two terms that should be prohibited for humans.”
- “Democracy has shown that it is better to live without a government.”
- «There are those who think differently from me. Even I, after time, think differently from me.
- Even if we go to hell, it is good that there is a heaven.
- “There is only one revenge and one absolution: indifference.”
- “The books are written with waking dreams.”
- “People are not ambitious: when happiness comes, they settle.”
- “Each person must take his own sanctuary, and not take advantage of other people’s constructions.”
