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Jorge Luis Borges
Argentinian
August 24, 1899
Poet
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
Jorge Luis Borges
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More
Than
Nothing
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
Jorge Luis Borges
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Religion
Than
Live
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
Jorge Luis Borges
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Poetry
Before
Art
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
Jorge Luis Borges
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Men
Thing
Over
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
Jorge Luis Borges
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Writing
Reading
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
Jorge Luis Borges
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More
Than
Which
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.
Jorge Luis Borges
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Death
Know
Man
In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.
Jorge Luis Borges
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Others
Act
Order
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
Jorge Luis Borges
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Just
Because
Our
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
Jorge Luis Borges
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Time
Me
Which
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
Jorge Luis Borges
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Men
Truth
Out
