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Poetry springs from something deeper it's beyond intelligence.
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
Jorge Luis Borges Acevedo
Horhe Luis Borhes
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Khorkhe Luyis Borkhes
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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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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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The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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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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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 execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part of the authorities to act slowly and impersonally, in the manner of planets or vegetables.
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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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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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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.
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I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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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 flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.
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A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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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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Everything touches everything.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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