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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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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 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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The word happiness exists in every language it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice in murder, courage in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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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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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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