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There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her.
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
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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo
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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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Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.
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There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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A writer's work is the product of laziness.
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A . . . poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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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 have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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All literature, is, finally autobiographical.
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The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
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The web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect, or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces every possibility. We do not exist in most of them. In some you exist and not I, while in others I do, and you do not, and in yet others both of us exist.
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Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a copy of the environment's objectivity or the individual's psychic history. Guided by the latter, art is redeemed, makes the world into its instrument, and forges, beyond spatial and temporal prisons, a personal vision.
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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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The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part of the authorities to act slowly and impersonally, in the manner of planets or vegetables.
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels.
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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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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