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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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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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That is what always happens: we never know whether we are victors or whether we are defeated.
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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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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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I'm not interested in the fact that a writer may label himself as being intellectual or anti-intellectual. l'm really interested in the stuff he's turning out.
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It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.
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We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.
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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 central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso / Bajo la especie de una biblioteca. I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.
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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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Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience in a garden should contaminate all humanity for that reason it is not unjust that the crucifixion of a single Jew should be sufficient to save it.
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Kafka had the sense of guilt. I don't think I have because I don't believe in free will. Because what I have done has been done, well, for me or through me. But I haven't done it really. But I don't believe in free will, I can't feel guilty.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.
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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
Jorge Luis Borges
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
Jorge Luis Borges
