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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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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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When you reach my age, you realize you couldn't have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his reader to believe it.
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The mathematical sciences wield their particular language made of digits and signs, no less subtle than any other.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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