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If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his reader to believe it.
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
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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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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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It seemed incredible to me that day without premonitions or symbols should be the one of my inexorable death .
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In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and theories are nothing more than stimuli and that the final work usually ignores or even contradicts them.
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