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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
Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo
Touches
Everything
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If I write a fantastic story, I'm not writing something willful. On the contrary, I am writing something that stands for my feelings, or for my thoughts. So that, in a sense, a fantastic story is as real and perhaps more real than a mere circumstantial story. Because after all, circumstances come and go, and symbols remain.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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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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To be immortal is commonplace except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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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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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left...
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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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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.
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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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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line
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Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.
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There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one
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