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All literature, is, finally autobiographical.
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
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Khorkhe Luyis Borkhes
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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo
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As to my writing short pieces, there are two reasons I can give you. The first is my invincible laziness. The second is that I've always been fond of short stories, and it always took me some trouble to get through a novel.
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It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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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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A writer's work is the product of laziness.
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I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.
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I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.
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It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part of the authorities to act slowly and impersonally, in the manner of planets or vegetables.
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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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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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You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language?
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one
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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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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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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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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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As the end approaches, there are no longer any images from memory - there are only words.
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Writing is only a guided dream.
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