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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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
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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo
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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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My father and he had cemented one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
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The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.
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