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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone
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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The two important facts I should say, are emotion, and then words arising from emotion. I don't think you can write in an emotionless way. If you attempt it, the result is artificial. I don't like that kind of writing. I think that if a poem is really great, you should think of it as having written itself despite the author. It should flow.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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I secretly assumed, as poets do, The duty on me to define the moon.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso / Bajo la especie de una biblioteca. I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.
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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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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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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
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Lully's machine, Mill's fear and Lasswitz's chaotic library can be the subject of jokes, but they exaggerate a propensity which is common: making metaphysics and the arts into a kind of play with combinations.
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I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.
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I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.
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The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?
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As the end approaches, there are no longer any images from memory - there are only words.
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