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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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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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The mathematical sciences wield their particular language made of digits and signs, no less subtle than any other.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination will reject it.
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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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Art always opts for the individual, the concrete art is not Platonic.
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Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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La duda es uno de los nombres de la inteligencia.
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I have no personal system of philosophy. I never attempt to do that. I am merely a man of letters.
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Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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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 know that when I think of myself as being utterly worn out, when I think that somehow I have nothing more to write, then something is happening within me. And, in due course, it bubbles up it comes to the surface, and then I do my best to listen. But there's nothing mystical about all this. I suppose all writers do the same.
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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In vain have oceans been squandered on you, in vain the sun, wonderfully seen through Whitman’s eyes. You have used up the years and they have used up you, and still, and still, you have not written the poem.
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I am interested in the past. Perhaps one of the reasons is we cannot make, cannot change the past. I mean you can hardly unmake the present. But the past after all is merely to say a memory, a dream. You know my own past seems continually changed when I am remembering it, or reading things that are interesting to me.
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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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On the floor, and hanging on to the bar, squatted an old man, immobile as an object. His years had reduced and polished him as water does a stone or the generations of men do a sentence.
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Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels.
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The word happiness exists in every language it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.
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