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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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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I try to avoid purple patches, fine writing, all that kind of thing... because I think they're a mistake. And then sometimes it comes through and sometimes it doesn't, but that's not up to me. It's up to chance.
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A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice in murder, courage in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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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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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language?
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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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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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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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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The people of Tlön are taught that the act of counting modifies the amount counted, turning indefinites into definites. The fact that several persons counting the same quantity come to the same result is for the psychologists of Tlön an example of the association of ideas or of memorization.
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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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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.
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As the end approaches, there are no longer any images from memory - there are only words.
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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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If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his reader to believe it.
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It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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