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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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
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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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The art of writing is mysterious the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic idea of the Muse to that of Poe, who reasoned, or feigned to reason, that the writing of a poem is an act of the intelligence. It never fails to amaze me that the classics hold a romantic theory of poetry, and a romantic poet a classical theory.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future . . . I felt myself to be, for an unknown period of time, an abstract perceiver of the world.
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When you reach my age, you realize you couldn't have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Then he reflected that reality does not usually coincide with our anticipation of it with a logic of his own he inferred that to forsee a circumstantial detail is to prevent its happening. Trusting in this weak magic, he invented, so that they would not happen, the most gruesome details.
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We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.
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You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language?
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Many people have thought of me as a thinker, as a philosopher, or even as a mystic. Well the truth is that though I have found reality perplexing enough - in fact, I find it gets more perplexing all the time - I never think of myself as a thinker.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.
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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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