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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
Jorge Luis Borges
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Jorge Luis Borges
Age: 86 †
Born: 1899
Born: August 24
Died: 1986
Died: March 26
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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges
Chorche Louis Borches
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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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It seemed incredible to me that day without premonitions or symbols should be the one of my inexorable death .
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Once I am dead, there will be no lack of pious hands to throw me over the railing my grave will be the fathomless air my body will sink endlessly and decay and dissolve in the wind generated by the fall, which is infinite.
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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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In vain have oceans been squandered on you, in vain the sun, wonderfully seen through Whitman’s eyes. You have used up the years and they have used up you, and still, and still, you have not written the poem.
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If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his reader to believe it.
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It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.
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The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text he should change it into something else.
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