Who is Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (; Spanish: [ˈboɾxes] (listen); 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet, and translator, as well as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known books, Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph (The Aleph), published in the 1940s, are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, philosophers, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, and mythology. Borges's works have contributed to philosophical literature and the fantasy genre, and influenced the magic realist movement in 20th century Latin American literature. His late poems converse with such cultural figures as Spinoza, Camões, and Virgil.

Born in Buenos Aires, Borge...
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Jorge Luis Borges Poems

  • Simplicity
    It opens, the gate to the garden
    with the docility of a page
    that frequent devotion questions
    and inside, my gaze ...
  • A Patio
    At evening
    they grow weary, the patio's two or three colours.
    Tonight, the moon, bright circle,
    fails to dominate space. ...
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Memory 1 Gaze 1 Reality 1 Reach 1 Speak 1 Victory 1 Privilege 1 Garden 1 Claim 1 Grant 1


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Alexwh: to a cat - jorge luís borges. somehow my two cats, niño & niña have in them something of every cat we ever had.
Importantbot: "nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone." - jorge luis borges
Jinyounglandss: i have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library. jorge luis borges
Mitibennett: “pausing” llm training will just give openai a monopoly. terrible idea. besides, in a few years the internet might become an unusable spam pit, like jorge luis borges “library of babel” - a library which contained every possible 410 page book (and so it contained no information…
Faustroll: not what you remember but what remembers you: "when a man reaches a certain age, there are many things he can pretend to and have others believe; happiness is not one of them." — jorge luis borges, the memory of shakespeare (1983)
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