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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.
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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What I'm really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death.
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I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man's diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books... If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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My friends tell me that I am an intruder, that I don't really write when I attempt poetry. But those of my friends who write in prose say that I'm no writer when I attempt prose. So really I don't know what to do, I'm in a quandary.
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In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.
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I...have always known that my destiny was, above all, a literary destiny — that bad things and some good things would happen to me, but that, in the long run, all of it would be converted into words. Particularly the bad things, since happiness does not need to be transformed: happiness is its own end.
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Canada is so far away it hardly exists.
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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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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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