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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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
Jorge Luis Borges Acevedo
Horhe Luis Borhes
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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo
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My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.
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The mathematical sciences wield their particular language made of digits and signs, no less subtle than any other.
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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 things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer - if there is any afterlife - to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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I have used the philosophers' ideas for my own private literary purposes, but I don't think that I'm a thinker. I suppose that my thinking has been done for me by Berkeley, by Hume, by Schopenhauer, by Mauthner perhaps.
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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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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.
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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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