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Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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I will always be the future Nobel. It must be a Scandinavian tradition.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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If we truly saw the Universe, maybe we would understand it.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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I don't know to what extent a writer can be revolutionary. For now, they are working with the language, which is a tradition.

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Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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Universal History is that of a single man.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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I have signed so many copies of my books that the day I die, one without my signature will have great value.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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Time is the best anthologist, or the only one, perhaps.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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Biographies: They are the exercise of minutiae, an absurdity. Some consist exclusively of changes of residence.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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Happy are the brave, those who accept defeat or applause with an even spirit.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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The verb to read, like the verb to love and the verb to dream, does not support 'the imperative mood'.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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Any destiny, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment: the moment when a person forever knows who they are.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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Always is a word that is not allowed for men.