15 Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges is one of the greatest Argentine and Latin American writers of the 20th century and of all time. His passage through literature left an indelible trail and inspired hundreds of new voices and millions of readers avid for fantasy and poetry. Over the course of his life, he published dozens of essay books, poetry and short stories. His work is immense and wonderful and yet he always felt that he was great not for what he had written, but for what he had read.
Incrível.club shares with you 15 famous phrases from this eternal candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, who made the universe an infinite library and knowledge his greatest ambition

1. Don’t speak unless you can improve the silence.

2. I do not speak of revenge or pardons, forgetfulness is the only revenge and the only forgiveness.

3. It is necessary to be careful when choosing enemies, because you end up looking like them.

4. The past is clay that the present plows at its whim. Endlessly.

5. Among the things is one that no one on earth regrets. This thing is to have been brave.

6. Someone is in love, when they realize that the other person is unique.

7. To be with you or not to be with you is the measure of my time.

8. Maybe because I no longer see happiness as something unattainable, I now know that happiness can happen at any time and that it shouldn’t be pursued.

9. When our ideas clash with reality, what has to be revised are the ideas..

10. Only he who was belongs to us.

11. I committed the worst of sins a man can commit, I was not happy.

12. Who am I? I’m trying to verify.

13. Beauty is that wonderful mystery that neither psychology nor rhetoric can decipher.

14. Happy are the brave, those who accept defeat or applause with the same spirit.

15. We are our memory, we are this chimerical museum of shifting forms, this pile of broken mirrors.