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For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.
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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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges
Chorche Louis Borches
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text he should change it into something else.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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I...have always known that my destiny was, above all, a literary destiny — that bad things and some good things would happen to me, but that, in the long run, all of it would be converted into words. Particularly the bad things, since happiness does not need to be transformed: happiness is its own end.
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In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and theories are nothing more than stimuli and that the final work usually ignores or even contradicts them.
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The time for your labor has been granted.
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In vain have oceans been squandered on you, in vain the sun, wonderfully seen through Whitman’s eyes. You have used up the years and they have used up you, and still, and still, you have not written the poem.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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A writer's work is the product of laziness.
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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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You don't have to try to be contemporary. You are already contemporary. What one has in mythology is being evolved all the time. Personally, I think I can do with Greek and Old Norse mythology. For example, I don't think I stand in need of planes or of railways or of cars.
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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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Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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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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Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.
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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.
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His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further.
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I have used the philosophers' ideas for my own private literary purposes, but I don't think that I'm a thinker. I suppose that my thinking has been done for me by Berkeley, by Hume, by Schopenhauer, by Mauthner perhaps.
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What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?
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