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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone
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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 might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer - if there is any afterlife - to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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The time for your labor has been granted.
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