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i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive
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
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Khorkhe Luyis Borkhes
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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo
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I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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The European and the North American consider that a book that has been awarded any kind of prize must be good the Argentine allows for the possibility that the book might not be bad, despite the prize.
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Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told us something that we should not have missed, or they are about to tell us something this imminence of a revelation that is not produced is, perhaps, the esthetic event.
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Canada is so far away it hardly exists.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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I know that when I think of myself as being utterly worn out, when I think that somehow I have nothing more to write, then something is happening within me. And, in due course, it bubbles up it comes to the surface, and then I do my best to listen. But there's nothing mystical about all this. I suppose all writers do the same.
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text he should change it into something else.
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I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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La duda es uno de los nombres de la inteligencia.
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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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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone
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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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