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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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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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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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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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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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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Life and death have been lacking in my life.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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I can’t talk about my books. I have written them and tried to forget them. I have written once, and readers have read me many times, no? I try to think of what I wrote, it’s very unhealthy to think about the past, the case of elegies is very sad, as much as the case of complaints.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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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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i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Poetry springs from something deeper it's beyond intelligence.
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The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.
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As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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We (the indivisible divinity that works in us) have dreamed the world. We have dreamed it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in space and firm in time, but we have allowed slight, and eternal, bits of the irrational to form part of its architecture so as to know that it is false.
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I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer - if there is any afterlife - to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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