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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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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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To bless thine enemy is a good way to satisfy thy vanity.
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It seemed incredible to me that day without premonitions or symbols should be the one of my inexorable death .
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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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I know that when I think of myself as being utterly worn out, when I think that somehow I have nothing more to write, then something is happening within me. And, in due course, it bubbles up it comes to the surface, and then I do my best to listen. But there's nothing mystical about all this. I suppose all writers do the same.
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To be immortal is commonplace except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death.
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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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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 am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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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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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience in a garden should contaminate all humanity for that reason it is not unjust that the crucifixion of a single Jew should be sufficient to save it.
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man's diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books... If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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The time for your labor has been granted.
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