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A . . . poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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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I don't think esthetic schools are important. What is important is the use that is made of them, or whatever the individual writer does.
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I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
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We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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I don't think we're capable of knowledge, but I like to keep an open mind. So if you ask me whether I believe in an afterlife or not, whether I believe in God or not, I can only answer you that all things are possible. And if all things are possible, heaven and hell and the angels are also possible. They're not to be ruled out.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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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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We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.
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I can’t talk about my books. I have written them and tried to forget them. I have written once, and readers have read me many times, no? I try to think of what I wrote, it’s very unhealthy to think about the past, the case of elegies is very sad, as much as the case of complaints.
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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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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated.
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There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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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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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.
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To bless thine enemy is a good way to satisfy thy vanity.
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You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death.
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Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels.
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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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Canada is so far away it hardly exists.
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Life and death have been lacking in my life.
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