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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated.
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
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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo
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Poetry springs from something deeper it's beyond intelligence.
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In vain have oceans been squandered on you, in vain the sun, wonderfully seen through Whitman’s eyes. You have used up the years and they have used up you, and still, and still, you have not written the poem.
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I have no personal system of philosophy. I never attempt to do that. I am merely a man of letters.
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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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All literature, is, finally autobiographical.
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On the floor, and hanging on to the bar, squatted an old man, immobile as an object. His years had reduced and polished him as water does a stone or the generations of men do a sentence.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one
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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left...
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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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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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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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Life and death have been lacking in my life.
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Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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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 means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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Then he reflected that reality does not usually coincide with our anticipation of it with a logic of his own he inferred that to forsee a circumstantial detail is to prevent its happening. Trusting in this weak magic, he invented, so that they would not happen, the most gruesome details.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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