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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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
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H. Bustos Domecq
Khorkhe Luyis Borkhes
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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo
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I have tried (I am not sure how successfully) to write plain tales. I dare not say they are simple there is not a simple page, a simple word, on earth -\-\ for all pages, all words, predicate the universe, whose most notorious attribute is its complexity.
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As to my writing short pieces, there are two reasons I can give you. The first is my invincible laziness. The second is that I've always been fond of short stories, and it always took me some trouble to get through a novel.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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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 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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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death?
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Canada is so far away it hardly exists.
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To bless thine enemy is a good way to satisfy thy vanity.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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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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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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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.
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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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