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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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The two important facts I should say, are emotion, and then words arising from emotion. I don't think you can write in an emotionless way. If you attempt it, the result is artificial. I don't like that kind of writing. I think that if a poem is really great, you should think of it as having written itself despite the author. It should flow.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination will reject it.
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There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.
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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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The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.
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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
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There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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All writing is dreaming
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I secretly assumed, as poets do, The duty on me to define the moon.
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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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Writing is only a guided dream.
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