Jorge Luis Borges Quotes about Earth

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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.

I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.

Jorge Luis Borges

Mirrors, Earth, Saws

The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.

Jorge Luis Borges

Errors, Mirrors, Earth

Jorge Luis Borges (2001). “A Universal History of Iniquity”, Penguin Books

I have tried (I am not sure how successfully) to write plain tales. I dare not say they are simple; there is not a simple page, a simple word, on earth -\-\ for all pages, all words, predicate the universe, whose most notorious attribute is its complexity.

Jorge Luis Borges

Writing, Simple, Earth

Jorge Luis Borges (2005). “Brodie's Report: Including the Prose Fiction from In Praise of Darkness”, Penguin Classics