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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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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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The word happiness exists in every language it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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The two important facts I should say, are emotion, and then words arising from emotion. I don't think you can write in an emotionless way. If you attempt it, the result is artificial. I don't like that kind of writing. I think that if a poem is really great, you should think of it as having written itself despite the author. It should flow.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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I would define the baroque as that style that deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) its own possibilities, and that borders on self-caricature. The baroque is the final stage in all art, when art flaunts and squanders its resources.
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A writer's work is the product of laziness.
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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.
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The European and the North American consider that a book that has been awarded any kind of prize must be good the Argentine allows for the possibility that the book might not be bad, despite the prize.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.
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The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
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My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.
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All writing is dreaming
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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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