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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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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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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My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.
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I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer - if there is any afterlife - to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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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 truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.
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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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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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I'm not interested in the fact that a writer may label himself as being intellectual or anti-intellectual. l'm really interested in the stuff he's turning out.
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Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.
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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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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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The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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As the end approaches, there are no longer any images from memory - there are only words.
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There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.
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