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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
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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo
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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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What I'm really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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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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Then he reflected that reality does not usually coincide with our anticipation of it with a logic of his own he inferred that to forsee a circumstantial detail is to prevent its happening. Trusting in this weak magic, he invented, so that they would not happen, the most gruesome details.
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It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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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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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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The art of writing is mysterious the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic idea of the Muse to that of Poe, who reasoned, or feigned to reason, that the writing of a poem is an act of the intelligence. It never fails to amaze me that the classics hold a romantic theory of poetry, and a romantic poet a classical theory.
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I hardly know what I'm going to write - an article, a story, a poem in free verse - or in some regular form. I only know that when I have the first sentence. And when the first sentence makes a kind of pattern, then I find out the kind of rhythm I'm looking for.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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I don't think I can really believe in doomsday I could hardly believe in rewards and punishments, in heaven or hell. As I wrote down in one of my sonnets - I seem to be always plagiarizing, imitating myself or somebody else for that matter - I think I am quite unworthy of heaven or of hell, and even of immortality.
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When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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I would define the baroque as that style that deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) its own possibilities, and that borders on self-caricature. The baroque is the final stage in all art, when art flaunts and squanders its resources.
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Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.
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