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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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I suppose every poet has his own private mythology. Maybe he's unaware of it. People tell me that I have evolved a private mythology of tigers, of blades, of labyrinths, and Im unaware of the fact this is so. My readers are finding it all the time. But I think perhaps that is the duty of poet.
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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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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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Each thing implies the universe.
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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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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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To bless thine enemy is a good way to satisfy thy vanity.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist - I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don't have to solve that problem. It's up to God, if any.
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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.
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Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.
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The word happiness exists in every language it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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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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In fact I'm in too much of a mental muddle to know where I am - an idealist or not. I'm a mere man of letters, and I do what I can with those subjects.
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His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further.
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Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso / Bajo la especie de una biblioteca. I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.
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