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You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death.
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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Ends
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Heart
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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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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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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