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Reality favors symmetry.
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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More quotes by Jorge Luis Borges
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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All literature, is, finally autobiographical.
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I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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Writing is only a guided dream.
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I hardly know what I'm going to write - an article, a story, a poem in free verse - or in some regular form. I only know that when I have the first sentence. And when the first sentence makes a kind of pattern, then I find out the kind of rhythm I'm looking for.
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Poetry springs from something deeper it's beyond intelligence.
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It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.
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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 central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text he should change it into something else.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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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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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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The word happiness exists in every language it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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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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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told us something that we should not have missed, or they are about to tell us something this imminence of a revelation that is not produced is, perhaps, the esthetic event.
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The people of Tlön are taught that the act of counting modifies the amount counted, turning indefinites into definites. The fact that several persons counting the same quantity come to the same result is for the psychologists of Tlön an example of the association of ideas or of memorization.
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