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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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
Jorge Luis Borges Acevedo
Horhe Luis Borhes
J. L. Borges
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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo
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You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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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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When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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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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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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The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.
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What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world? The voice of Macedonio Fernandez, the image of a bay horse in a vacant lot on the corner of Sarrano and Charcas, a bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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I don't think esthetic schools are important. What is important is the use that is made of them, or whatever the individual writer does.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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