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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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
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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo
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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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When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don't have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don't think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
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Kafka had the sense of guilt. I don't think I have because I don't believe in free will. Because what I have done has been done, well, for me or through me. But I haven't done it really. But I don't believe in free will, I can't feel guilty.
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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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To bless thine enemy is a good way to satisfy thy vanity.
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As to my writing short pieces, there are two reasons I can give you. The first is my invincible laziness. The second is that I've always been fond of short stories, and it always took me some trouble to get through a novel.
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Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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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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Canada is so far away it hardly exists.
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We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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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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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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