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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
Jorge Luis Borges
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Jorge Luis Borges
Age: 86 †
Born: 1899
Born: August 24
Died: 1986
Died: March 26
Librarian
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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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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
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A . . . poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the right reader comes along, and the words—or rather the poetry behind the words, for the words themselves are mere symbols—spring to life, and we have a resurrection of the word.
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There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.
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The web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect, or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces every possibility. We do not exist in most of them. In some you exist and not I, while in others I do, and you do not, and in yet others both of us exist.
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I have no personal system of philosophy. I never attempt to do that. I am merely a man of letters.
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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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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit... I have not been happy.
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As the end approaches, there are no longer any images from memory - there are only words.
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Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience in a garden should contaminate all humanity for that reason it is not unjust that the crucifixion of a single Jew should be sufficient to save it.
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We did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I don't think anything can be done in Spanish, do you?' Neruda agreed, but we decided it was too late for us to write our verse in English. We'd have to make the best of a second-rate literature.
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Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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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 have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
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