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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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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges
Chorche Louis Borches
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Horhe Luis Borhes
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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo
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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.
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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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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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Then he reflected that reality does not usually coincide with our anticipation of it with a logic of his own he inferred that to forsee a circumstantial detail is to prevent its happening. Trusting in this weak magic, he invented, so that they would not happen, the most gruesome details.
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I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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The people of Tlön are taught that the act of counting modifies the amount counted, turning indefinites into definites. The fact that several persons counting the same quantity come to the same result is for the psychologists of Tlön an example of the association of ideas or of memorization.
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I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
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