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What I'm really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges
Chorche Louis Borches
Jorge Luis Borges Acevedo
Horhe Luis Borhes
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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo
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I have tried (I am not sure how successfully) to write plain tales. I dare not say they are simple there is not a simple page, a simple word, on earth -\-\ for all pages, all words, predicate the universe, whose most notorious attribute is its complexity.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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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, who have been so many men in vain, want to be one man, myself alone. From out of a whirlwind the voice of God replied: I am not, either. I dreamed the world the way you dreamed your work, my Shakespeare: one of the forms of my dream was you, who, like me, are many and one.
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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.
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Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.
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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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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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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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