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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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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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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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