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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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
Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo
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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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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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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 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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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically dessicated and preserved.
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There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.
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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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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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As to my writing short pieces, there are two reasons I can give you. The first is my invincible laziness. The second is that I've always been fond of short stories, and it always took me some trouble to get through a novel.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive
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