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In fact I'm in too much of a mental muddle to know where I am - an idealist or not. I'm a mere man of letters, and I do what I can with those subjects.
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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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
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I try to avoid purple patches, fine writing, all that kind of thing... because I think they're a mistake. And then sometimes it comes through and sometimes it doesn't, but that's not up to me. It's up to chance.
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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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Reality favors symmetry.
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Art always opts for the individual, the concrete art is not Platonic.
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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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Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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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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What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world? The voice of Macedonio Fernandez, the image of a bay horse in a vacant lot on the corner of Sarrano and Charcas, a bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?
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Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his reader to believe it.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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La duda es uno de los nombres de la inteligencia.
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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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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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