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A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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
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Poetry springs from something deeper it's beyond intelligence.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Art always opts for the individual, the concrete art is not Platonic.
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text he should change it into something else.
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The European and the North American consider that a book that has been awarded any kind of prize must be good the Argentine allows for the possibility that the book might not be bad, despite the prize.
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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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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her.
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In fact I'm in too much of a mental muddle to know where I am - an idealist or not. I'm a mere man of letters, and I do what I can with those subjects.
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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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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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I am interested in the past. Perhaps one of the reasons is we cannot make, cannot change the past. I mean you can hardly unmake the present. But the past after all is merely to say a memory, a dream. You know my own past seems continually changed when I am remembering it, or reading things that are interesting to me.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.
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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.
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In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and theories are nothing more than stimuli and that the final work usually ignores or even contradicts them.
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