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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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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H. Bustos Domecq
Khorkhe Luyis Borkhes
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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo
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Many people have thought of me as a thinker, as a philosopher, or even as a mystic. Well the truth is that though I have found reality perplexing enough - in fact, I find it gets more perplexing all the time - I never think of myself as a thinker.
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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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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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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist - I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don't have to solve that problem. It's up to God, if any.
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You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death.
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.
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I don't think I can really believe in doomsday I could hardly believe in rewards and punishments, in heaven or hell. As I wrote down in one of my sonnets - I seem to be always plagiarizing, imitating myself or somebody else for that matter - I think I am quite unworthy of heaven or of hell, and even of immortality.
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I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man's diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books... If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.
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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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Each thing implies the universe.
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Everything touches everything.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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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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There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language?
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We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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