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Jorge Luis Borges

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Life itself is a quotation.


— Jorge Luis Borges


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Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.


— Jorge Luis Borges


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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.


— Jorge Luis Borges


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In general, every country has the language it deserves.


— Jorge Luis Borges


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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.


— Jorge Luis Borges


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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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Life and death have been lacking in my life.


— Jorge Luis Borges


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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.


— Jorge Luis Borges


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Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.


— Jorge Luis Borges


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Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.


— Jorge Luis Borges


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About Jorge Luis Borges

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Did you know about Jorge Luis Borges?

Borges was overjoyed and joined demonstrators marching through the streets of Buenos Aires. The Argentine Declaration of Independence in 1816 led to waves of immigration from Europe Asia and the Middle East and in the following decades and the Argentine national identity diversified. For a time Argentinians hesitated to wear band aids for fear friends would ask 'Did the atomic bomb go off in your hand?' A shame because Argentina really has world class scientists.

Borges himself was fluent in several languages. On his return to Argentina in 1921 Borges began publishing his poems and essays in surrealist literary journals. His work embraces the "character of unreality in all literature".

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