11 Quotes To Remember Jorge Luis Borges On His Birthday

*It’s Borges’ birthday week -some quotes to help the celebration. VL

By Roque Planas, Huffington Post Latino Voices

One of the most unique literary figures of the twentieth century, Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on the 24th of August, in 1899.

As a master craftsman of the short story, Borges penned tales of Argentina’s criminal underbelly and created fictional worlds that captured his wonder with the concept of infinitude. His poems commemorate the unique culture and traditions of the capital of Buenos Aires, where he lived until his death in 1986.

Perhaps one of Latin America’s greatest writers, many view it as an injustice that he died without having received a Nobel Prize for literature.

“It makes me a little ashamed to receive the Nobel Prize, given that Borges didn’t receive it,” Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa said after winning the coveted award in 2010.

To mark the literary genius’s birthday, enjoy some of his most pithy quotes below.

• 1
  “Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.”
  Argentina’s writer Jorge Luis Borges talks in his Buenos Aires apartment on Nov. 20, 1981 (AP)
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  “Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.”– Jorge Luis Borges

• 3
  “Life itself is a quotation.”
  JUAN MABROMATA via Getty Images
  Books with notes an handwritten comments by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) on display at the National Library in Buenos Aires on September 24, 2010.
• 4
  As I think of the many myths, there is one that is very harmful, and that is the myth of countries.– Jorge Luis Borges

• 5
  “Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.”
  Jorge Luis Borges, writer (Photo by Raul Urbina/Cover/Getty Images)

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This article was originally published in Huffington Post Latino Voices.