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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
Librarian
Literary Critic
Poet
Screenwriter
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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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Cheated
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What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world? The voice of Macedonio Fernandez, the image of a bay horse in a vacant lot on the corner of Sarrano and Charcas, a bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?
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La duda es uno de los nombres de la inteligencia.
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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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Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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Art always opts for the individual, the concrete art is not Platonic.
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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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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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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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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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In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice in murder, courage in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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The time for your labor has been granted.
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Once I am dead, there will be no lack of pious hands to throw me over the railing my grave will be the fathomless air my body will sink endlessly and decay and dissolve in the wind generated by the fall, which is infinite.
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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Life and death have been lacking in my life.
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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death?
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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I...have always known that my destiny was, above all, a literary destiny — that bad things and some good things would happen to me, but that, in the long run, all of it would be converted into words. Particularly the bad things, since happiness does not need to be transformed: happiness is its own end.
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