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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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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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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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I have used the philosophers' ideas for my own private literary purposes, but I don't think that I'm a thinker. I suppose that my thinking has been done for me by Berkeley, by Hume, by Schopenhauer, by Mauthner perhaps.
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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When you reach my age, you realize you couldn't have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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I hardly know what I'm going to write - an article, a story, a poem in free verse - or in some regular form. I only know that when I have the first sentence. And when the first sentence makes a kind of pattern, then I find out the kind of rhythm I'm looking for.
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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 can’t talk about my books. I have written them and tried to forget them. I have written once, and readers have read me many times, no? I try to think of what I wrote, it’s very unhealthy to think about the past, the case of elegies is very sad, as much as the case of complaints.
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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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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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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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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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A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.
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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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Many people have thought of me as a thinker, as a philosopher, or even as a mystic. Well the truth is that though I have found reality perplexing enough - in fact, I find it gets more perplexing all the time - I never think of myself as a thinker.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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