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Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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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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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit... I have not been happy.
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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his reader to believe it.
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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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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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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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If I write a fantastic story, I'm not writing something willful. On the contrary, I am writing something that stands for my feelings, or for my thoughts. So that, in a sense, a fantastic story is as real and perhaps more real than a mere circumstantial story. Because after all, circumstances come and go, and symbols remain.
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Poetry springs from something deeper it's beyond intelligence.
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Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.
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For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don't.
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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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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