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You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language?
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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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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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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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.
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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.
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There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.
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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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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her.
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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated.
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