Jorge Luis Borges left us several wonderful phrases and passages in his long list of works. This Argentine writer still amazes us today and, of course, will continue to do so because he is eternal. Lovers of stories and not so much of novels :?He didn’t like it. She said tea cups, women’s hats and many other things to “fill the gaps” appeared. Did the stories, for him, have a tension, like an arrow ready to hit the target?.
He did not embrace the dominant idea of the moment, he did not receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, even if he deserved it, in the opinion of many. A reporter once asked him, “Why do you think you were never granted?Nobel Prize in Literature?” The writer replied, “Swedish wisdom. “On another occasion, he said: “I will always be the future Nobel Prize. Should it be a Scandinavian tradition?.
- Today we wanted to remember your greatness by bringing 21 wonderful phrases that reflect your fantastic game with words and feelings:.
1- I do not speak of vengeance or forgiveness, forgetfulness is the only vengeance and the only forgiveness.
2- I have committed the worst sin a man can commit, he was not happy
3- There are defeats that have more dignity than a victory.
4- Of all man’s instruments, the most striking is undoubtedly the book, the others are extensions of your body. The microscope, the telescope, are extensions of your vision; The phone is an extension of the voice. then we have the plow and the sword, the extensions of the arms. But the book is something else: the book is an extension of memory and imagination.
5- Every destination, however long and complicated, is actually one moment: one in which man finally understands who he is.
6- A person becomes great for what he reads and not for what he writes.
7- One person falls in love when he realizes that the other person is unique.
8- What is gone is only what belongs to us
9- I already suspected that the only thing without mystery is happiness, because it justifies itself.
10- Perhaps a passionate man is not wrong. Perhaps those who are not in love are the ones who are wrong.
11- I think that, over time, we would deserve not to have governments.
12- I always felt that there was something in Buenos Aires that I loved and loved so much, I do not like that others like it, it is a very jealous love.
13- There is no comfort more skilful than the thought of choosing our misfortunes.
14- Before, distances were greater because space was measured by time.
15- I always imagined that paradise would be a kind of library
16- I’m alone and I don’t see anyone in the mirror.
17- Don’t be ambitious: just be happy.
18- They should invent a game in which no one wins
20- The weight of the past is infinite.
21- Blindness is a form of loneliness.
Jorge Luis Borges’ passion for the news left us masterpieces of a genre that many abandoned in the early years of childhood, then, perhaps, would be some of his best stories: