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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.
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
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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo
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What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?
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Many people have thought of me as a thinker, as a philosopher, or even as a mystic. Well the truth is that though I have found reality perplexing enough - in fact, I find it gets more perplexing all the time - I never think of myself as a thinker.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Reality favors symmetry.
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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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Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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The mathematical sciences wield their particular language made of digits and signs, no less subtle than any other.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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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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My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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