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There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.
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 known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
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When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don't have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don't think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
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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.
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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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Once I am dead, there will be no lack of pious hands to throw me over the railing my grave will be the fathomless air my body will sink endlessly and decay and dissolve in the wind generated by the fall, which is infinite.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
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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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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library.
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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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