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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not.

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Jorge Luis Borges
Age: 86 †
Born: 1899
Born: August 24
Died: 1986
Died: March 26
Librarian
Literary Critic
Poet
Screenwriter
Translator
Writer
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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Hypothesis
Obligation
Avoid
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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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What I'm really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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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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I, who have been so many men in vain, want to be one man, myself alone. From out of a whirlwind the voice of God replied: I am not, either. I dreamed the world the way you dreamed your work, my Shakespeare: one of the forms of my dream was you, who, like me, are many and one.
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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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You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language?
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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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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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The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
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I have no personal system of philosophy. I never attempt to do that. I am merely a man of letters.
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I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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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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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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The time for your labor has been granted.
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There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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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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A writer's work is the product of laziness.
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I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
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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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