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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
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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo
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I have used the philosophers' ideas for my own private literary purposes, but I don't think that I'm a thinker. I suppose that my thinking has been done for me by Berkeley, by Hume, by Schopenhauer, by Mauthner perhaps.
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I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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I, who have been so many men in vain, want to be one man, myself alone. From out of a whirlwind the voice of God replied: I am not, either. I dreamed the world the way you dreamed your work, my Shakespeare: one of the forms of my dream was you, who, like me, are many and one.
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My friends tell me that I am an intruder, that I don't really write when I attempt poetry. But those of my friends who write in prose say that I'm no writer when I attempt prose. So really I don't know what to do, I'm in a quandary.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated.
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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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The word happiness exists in every language it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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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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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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