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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.
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
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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo
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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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That is what always happens: we never know whether we are victors or whether we are defeated.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not.
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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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Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
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La duda es uno de los nombres de la inteligencia.
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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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I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.
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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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All literature, is, finally autobiographical.
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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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The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death?
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I don't think esthetic schools are important. What is important is the use that is made of them, or whatever the individual writer does.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a copy of the environment's objectivity or the individual's psychic history. Guided by the latter, art is redeemed, makes the world into its instrument, and forges, beyond spatial and temporal prisons, a personal vision.
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