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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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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In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.
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You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death.
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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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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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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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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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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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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We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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That is what always happens: we never know whether we are victors or whether we are defeated.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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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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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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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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I secretly assumed, as poets do, The duty on me to define the moon.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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