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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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The art of writing is mysterious the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic idea of the Muse to that of Poe, who reasoned, or feigned to reason, that the writing of a poem is an act of the intelligence. It never fails to amaze me that the classics hold a romantic theory of poetry, and a romantic poet a classical theory.
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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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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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We (the indivisible divinity that works in us) have dreamed the world. We have dreamed it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in space and firm in time, but we have allowed slight, and eternal, bits of the irrational to form part of its architecture so as to know that it is false.
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This web of time--the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect or ignore eachother through the centuries--embrace every posibility.
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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive
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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 execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part of the authorities to act slowly and impersonally, in the manner of planets or vegetables.
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Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
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