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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
Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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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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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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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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Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels.
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I would define the baroque as that style that deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) its own possibilities, and that borders on self-caricature. The baroque is the final stage in all art, when art flaunts and squanders its resources.
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For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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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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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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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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My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.
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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library.
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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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The web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect, or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces every possibility. We do not exist in most of them. In some you exist and not I, while in others I do, and you do not, and in yet others both of us exist.
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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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