He is considered to be one of the greatest Latin American writers of the past century, even though he did not receive a Nobel Prize for literature.
His two famous books, Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph (The Aleph), are compilations of short stories.
Check out quotations by Jorge Luis Borges below:
“Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.”
doubt, names, intelligence
“Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.”
talk, improve, silence
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream."
writing, dream
“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”
love, religion, god
“Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.”
being, measure, time
“To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.”
die, religion, live
“We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.”
reality, real
“Life itself is a quotation.”
quotation, life
“When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation."
writers, books, incarnation
"For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end."
myth, literature
"As I think of the many myths, there is one that is very harmful, and that is the myth of countries."
think, myths, countries