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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 confess that I have not cleared a path through all seven hundred pages, I confess to having examined only bits and pieces, and yet I know what it is, with that bold and legitimate certainty with which we assert our knowledge of a city, without ever having been rewarded with the intimacy of all the many streets it includes.
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It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
Jorge Luis Borges
It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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I don't think we're capable of knowledge, but I like to keep an open mind. So if you ask me whether I believe in an afterlife or not, whether I believe in God or not, I can only answer you that all things are possible. And if all things are possible, heaven and hell and the angels are also possible. They're not to be ruled out.
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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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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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My father and he had cemented one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
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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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Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.
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All literature, is, finally autobiographical.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.
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A writer's work is the product of laziness.
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Canada is so far away it hardly exists.
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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
Jorge Luis Borges
For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don't.
Jorge Luis Borges
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
Jorge Luis Borges
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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All writing is dreaming
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Everything touches everything.
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