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Each thing implies the universe.

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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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Poetry springs from something deeper it's beyond intelligence.
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I suppose every poet has his own private mythology. Maybe he's unaware of it. People tell me that I have evolved a private mythology of tigers, of blades, of labyrinths, and Im unaware of the fact this is so. My readers are finding it all the time. But I think perhaps that is the duty of poet.
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For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.
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You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language?
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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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His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further.
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
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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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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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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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Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a copy of the environment's objectivity or the individual's psychic history. Guided by the latter, art is redeemed, makes the world into its instrument, and forges, beyond spatial and temporal prisons, a personal vision.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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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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We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.
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