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Canada is so far away it hardly exists.
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
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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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The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all of my instants would be provisional phases, annihilators of the past turned to face the future, and that beyond the episodic, the present, the circumstantial, we were nobody.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination will reject it.
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A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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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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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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