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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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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In vain have oceans been squandered on you, in vain the sun, wonderfully seen through Whitman’s eyes. You have used up the years and they have used up you, and still, and still, you have not written the poem.
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Kafka had the sense of guilt. I don't think I have because I don't believe in free will. Because what I have done has been done, well, for me or through me. But I haven't done it really. But I don't believe in free will, I can't feel guilty.
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La duda es uno de los nombres de la inteligencia.
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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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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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Art always opts for the individual, the concrete art is not Platonic.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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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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Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination will reject it.
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That is what always happens: we never know whether we are victors or whether we are defeated.
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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don't have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don't think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
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I have used the philosophers' ideas for my own private literary purposes, but I don't think that I'm a thinker. I suppose that my thinking has been done for me by Berkeley, by Hume, by Schopenhauer, by Mauthner perhaps.
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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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I would define the baroque as that style that deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) its own possibilities, and that borders on self-caricature. The baroque is the final stage in all art, when art flaunts and squanders its resources.
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The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
Jorge Luis Borges
Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
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