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Jorge Luis Borges
said
Everything would be in its blind volumes.
— "The Universal Library" (1939)
Jorge Luis Borges
Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator (1899–1986)
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He wrote labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, and dreams folding into dreams — short fictions that remade what a story could be. By the time the world caught up, Borges was already blind, navigating his own fiction by memory.
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Born in Buenos Aires in 1899, Borges moved to Switzerland in 1914 and studied at the Collège de Genève, travelling widely across Europe before returning to Argentina in 1921. He published poems and essays in surrealist journals while working as a librarian and lecturer, then released his defining story collections — Ficciones and El Aleph — in the 1940s, building fictions from archives, chance, and mythology. In 1955 he was appointed director of the National Public Library and professor of English Literature at the University of Buenos Aires, by which time he was completely blind. The 1961 For…
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Jorge Luis Borges
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Reading … is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Universal History of Infamy [Historia universal de la infamia] (1935) Preface
Jorge Luis Borges
said
The vast ineptitude of his pretense would be a convincing proof that this was no fraud.
— "The Improbable Impostor Tom Castro", in A Universal History of Iniquity (1935); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)
Jorge Luis Borges
said
Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.
— "The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim" (1935)
Jorge Luis Borges
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
— "The masked dyer Hakim of Merv" [El tintorero enmascarado Hakim de Merv] Universal History of Infamy (1935); also translated as "Hakim,
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