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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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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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Many people have thought of me as a thinker, as a philosopher, or even as a mystic. Well the truth is that though I have found reality perplexing enough - in fact, I find it gets more perplexing all the time - I never think of myself as a thinker.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Kafka had the sense of guilt. I don't think I have because I don't believe in free will. Because what I have done has been done, well, for me or through me. But I haven't done it really. But I don't believe in free will, I can't feel guilty.
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What I'm really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.
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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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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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The time for your labor has been granted.
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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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