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Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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In what other way can one be threatened if not with death? The interesting, the original, would be if someone were to threaten one with immortality.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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Let others boast about the pages they have written; I take pride in the ones I have read.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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We are our memory, we are that chimeric museum of inconstant forms, that pile of broken mirrors.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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I would like to be brave. My dentist assures me that I am not.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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There are communists who argue that being anti-communist is being fascist. This is as incomprehensible as saying that not being Catholic is being Mormon.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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Yo no bebo, no fumo, no escucho la radio, no me drogo, como poco. Yo diría que mis únicos vicios son El Quijote, La divina comedia y no incurrir en la lectura de Enrique Larreta ni de Benavente

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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I think we should invent a game where nobody wins.

Fun
Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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The Library is a sphere whose precise center is any hexagon, whose circumference is inaccessible.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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I have always felt that there is something about Buenos Aires that I like. I like it so much that I don't like it when other people like it. It's a jealous kind of love.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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They say I am a great writer. I appreciate that curious opinion, but I do not share it. Tomorrow, some bright individuals will easily refute it and label me as an impostor or a hack, or both at once.

Art
Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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Hell and paradise seem disproportionate to me. The actions of men do not deserve so much.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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Literature is nothing more than a directed dream.