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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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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Buenos Ayres
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges
Chorche Louis Borches
Jorge Luis Borges Acevedo
Horhe Luis Borhes
J. L. Borges
H. Bustos Domecq
Khorkhe Luyis Borkhes
Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo
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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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I know that when I think of myself as being utterly worn out, when I think that somehow I have nothing more to write, then something is happening within me. And, in due course, it bubbles up it comes to the surface, and then I do my best to listen. But there's nothing mystical about all this. I suppose all writers do the same.
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When you reach my age, you realize you couldn't have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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The European and the North American consider that a book that has been awarded any kind of prize must be good the Argentine allows for the possibility that the book might not be bad, despite the prize.
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What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?
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The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.
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Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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All literature, is, finally autobiographical.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination will reject it.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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