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In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.
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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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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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don't have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don't think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
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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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Yo, que me figuraba el ParaĆso / Bajo la especie de una biblioteca. I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.
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Poetry springs from something deeper it's beyond intelligence.
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A . . . poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically dessicated and preserved.
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Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.
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The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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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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As the end approaches, there are no longer any images from memory - there are only words.
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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death?
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There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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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 try to avoid purple patches, fine writing, all that kind of thing... because I think they're a mistake. And then sometimes it comes through and sometimes it doesn't, but that's not up to me. It's up to chance.
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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left...
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