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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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A writer's work is the product of laziness.
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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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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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What I'm really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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The European and the North American consider that a book that has been awarded any kind of prize must be good the Argentine allows for the possibility that the book might not be bad, despite the prize.
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For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don't.
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It seemed incredible to me that day without premonitions or symbols should be the one of my inexorable death .
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Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not.
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My father and he had cemented one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
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I don't think esthetic schools are important. What is important is the use that is made of them, or whatever the individual writer does.
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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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Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told us something that we should not have missed, or they are about to tell us something this imminence of a revelation that is not produced is, perhaps, the esthetic event.
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I know that when I think of myself as being utterly worn out, when I think that somehow I have nothing more to write, then something is happening within me. And, in due course, it bubbles up it comes to the surface, and then I do my best to listen. But there's nothing mystical about all this. I suppose all writers do the same.
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