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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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
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Horhe Luis Borhes
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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo
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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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I have tried (I am not sure how successfully) to write plain tales. I dare not say they are simple there is not a simple page, a simple word, on earth -\-\ for all pages, all words, predicate the universe, whose most notorious attribute is its complexity.
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It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.
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The web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect, or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces every possibility. We do not exist in most of them. In some you exist and not I, while in others I do, and you do not, and in yet others both of us exist.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language?
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I know that when I think of myself as being utterly worn out, when I think that somehow I have nothing more to write, then something is happening within me. And, in due course, it bubbles up it comes to the surface, and then I do my best to listen. But there's nothing mystical about all this. I suppose all writers do the same.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit... I have not been happy.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one
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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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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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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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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line
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I'm not interested in the fact that a writer may label himself as being intellectual or anti-intellectual. l'm really interested in the stuff he's turning out.
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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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We did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I don't think anything can be done in Spanish, do you?' Neruda agreed, but we decided it was too late for us to write our verse in English. We'd have to make the best of a second-rate literature.
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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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