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Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.
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
Jorge Luis Borges Acevedo
Horhe Luis Borhes
J. L. Borges
H. Bustos Domecq
Khorkhe Luyis Borkhes
Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo
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Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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I don't think esthetic schools are important. What is important is the use that is made of them, or whatever the individual writer does.
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I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future . . . I felt myself to be, for an unknown period of time, an abstract perceiver of the world.
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There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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You don't have to try to be contemporary. You are already contemporary. What one has in mythology is being evolved all the time. Personally, I think I can do with Greek and Old Norse mythology. For example, I don't think I stand in need of planes or of railways or of cars.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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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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The time for your labor has been granted.
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To bless thine enemy is a good way to satisfy thy vanity.
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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 worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line
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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 future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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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 certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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