Jorge Luis Borges

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a man sitting at a table with a book in his hand
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Jorge Luis Borges, Buenos Aires, 1943 -by Gisèle Freund [+] and [EGyB] from rmn
a black and white drawing of a man's face
Jorge Luis Borges: El incivil maestro de ceremonias Kotsuké no Suké
Jorge Luis Borges
an old photo of two people sitting next to each other on a couch with one woman looking at the camera
Scrittori e storie | Bergoglio gli fece la barba, la sua donna gli disse di spararsi: otto aneddoti per conoscere meglio Jorge Luis Borges - Linkiesta.it
Jorge Luis Borges (Buenos Aires, 24 agosto 1899 – Ginevra, 14 giugno 1986) con María Kodama, sua ultima musa e seconda moglie.
black and white photograph of an older man in uniform looking off to the side with his eyes closed
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Jorge Luis Borges
a man in a suit and tie standing next to a statue with his hand on the arm
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Jorge Luis Borges visiting the Galleria Nazionale, Palermo (Italy), March 1984 -by Ferdinando Scianna Sculptures are bodies among bodies, outer outlines which men’s invention drops among others populating space and whose image, according to idealism, may be space itself.Oddly enough its material character emphasizes its fantastic character. Each statue is a Golem.— Jorge Luis Borges, from a conversation with Daniele Crippa [full text] photo from magnum
an old man in a suit and tie holding a cane standing next to some trees
Jorge Luis Borges. Photograph by Diane Arbus.
an older man in a suit and tie smiles for the camera with his eyes closed
A writer--and, I believe, generally all persons--must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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this is an image of a painting of people in a library with bookshelves
The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges as imagined by Érik Desmazières
an old photo of a man sitting in a chair next to a cat
# LITERATURE /// Lectures of Jorge Luis Borges at Harvard in 1967-68 on UbuWeb
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges. Mind blowingingly brilliant brain. Animal Room, Lee Jeffries
New Directions in the Humanities Research Network
Jorge Luis Borges. Mind blowingingly brilliant brain.
a black and white drawing with writing on it
Self Portrait of Jorge Luis Borges, After He Went Blind
Self Portrait by Jorge Luis Borges (after he went blind)