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As the end approaches, there are no longer any images from memory - there are only words.
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
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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo
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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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My father and he had cemented one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
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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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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don't.
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I don't think we're capable of knowledge, but I like to keep an open mind. So if you ask me whether I believe in an afterlife or not, whether I believe in God or not, I can only answer you that all things are possible. And if all things are possible, heaven and hell and the angels are also possible. They're not to be ruled out.
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La duda es uno de los nombres de la inteligencia.
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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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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
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To be immortal is commonplace except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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I have no personal system of philosophy. I never attempt to do that. I am merely a man of letters.
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We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.
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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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