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It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.
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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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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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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I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
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It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers.
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No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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I know of one semibarbarous zone whose librarians repudiate the vain and superstitious habit of trying to find sense in books, equating such a quest with attempting to find meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines on the palms of one's hand.
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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 personal system of philosophy. I never attempt to do that. I am merely a man of letters.
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In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice in murder, courage in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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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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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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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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The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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I am interested in the past. Perhaps one of the reasons is we cannot make, cannot change the past. I mean you can hardly unmake the present. But the past after all is merely to say a memory, a dream. You know my own past seems continually changed when I am remembering it, or reading things that are interesting to me.
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Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.
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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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