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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
J. L. Borges
H. Bustos Domecq
Khorkhe Luyis Borkhes
Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo
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Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.
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It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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La duda es uno de los nombres de la inteligencia.
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Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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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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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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This web of time--the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect or ignore eachother through the centuries--embrace every posibility.
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I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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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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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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As the end approaches, there are no longer any images from memory - there are only words.
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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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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.
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To be immortal is commonplace except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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Writing is only a guided dream.
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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line
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