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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges
Chorche Louis Borches
Jorge Luis Borges Acevedo
Horhe Luis Borhes
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H. Bustos Domecq
Khorkhe Luyis Borkhes
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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo
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We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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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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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit... I have not been happy.
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