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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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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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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I have no personal system of philosophy. I never attempt to do that. I am merely a man of letters.
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For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.
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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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On the floor, and hanging on to the bar, squatted an old man, immobile as an object. His years had reduced and polished him as water does a stone or the generations of men do a sentence.
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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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It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.
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Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers.
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Poetry springs from something deeper it's beyond intelligence.
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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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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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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
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Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso / Bajo la especie de una biblioteca. I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.
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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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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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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.
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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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