Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

• 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.

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• 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.

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• There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.

  Jorge Luis Borges

• 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.

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• The original is unfaithful to the translation.

  Jorge Luis Borges

• The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

  Jorge Luis Borges

• The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

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• The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.

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• The central problem of novel-writing is causality.

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• Reality is not always probable, or likely.

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• Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

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• One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.

  Jorge Luis Borges

• My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.

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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.

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

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• Life itself is a quotation.

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• Life and death have been lacking in my life.

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• 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.

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• In general, every country has the language it deserves.

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• I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.

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Birth:	24th August, 1899
Death:	14th June, 1986
Nationality:	Argentinean
Profession:	Essayist, Poet, Translator, Writer

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