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I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
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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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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Each thing implies the universe.
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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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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels.
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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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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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If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his reader to believe it.
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Lully's machine, Mill's fear and Lasswitz's chaotic library can be the subject of jokes, but they exaggerate a propensity which is common: making metaphysics and the arts into a kind of play with combinations.
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We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.
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Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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We (the indivisible divinity that works in us) have dreamed the world. We have dreamed it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in space and firm in time, but we have allowed slight, and eternal, bits of the irrational to form part of its architecture so as to know that it is false.
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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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