Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
Jorge Luis Borges (24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine writer who is considered one of the foremost literary figures of the 20th century. Most famous in the English speaking world for his short stories and fictive essays, Borges was also a poet, critic, translator and man of letters.
Quotes·Quotations by Jorge Luis Borges
¶ The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
"Ibn-Hakim Al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrinth", in The Aleph (1949); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)
¶ Life itself is a quotation.
[Quoted in Cool Memories (1987) by Jean Baudrillard, (trans. 1990) Ch. 5; heard by Baudrillard at a lecture given in Paris.]
¶ It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
[in "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins" in Other Inquisitions (1952), as translated by Will Fitzgerald]
"Pascal’s Sphere" ["La esfera de Pascal"] (1951)
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