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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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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The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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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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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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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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Then he reflected that reality does not usually coincide with our anticipation of it with a logic of his own he inferred that to forsee a circumstantial detail is to prevent its happening. Trusting in this weak magic, he invented, so that they would not happen, the most gruesome details.
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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.
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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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Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience in a garden should contaminate all humanity for that reason it is not unjust that the crucifixion of a single Jew should be sufficient to save it.
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The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.
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I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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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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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line
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There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.
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We did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I don't think anything can be done in Spanish, do you?' Neruda agreed, but we decided it was too late for us to write our verse in English. We'd have to make the best of a second-rate literature.
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What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?
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His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Poetry springs from something deeper it's beyond intelligence.
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