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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not.
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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A writer's work is the product of laziness.
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I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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To bless thine enemy is a good way to satisfy thy vanity.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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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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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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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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As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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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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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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I'm not interested in the fact that a writer may label himself as being intellectual or anti-intellectual. l'm really interested in the stuff he's turning out.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
Jorge Luis Borges
If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
Jorge Luis Borges
The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.
Jorge Luis Borges
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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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
Jorge Luis Borges
