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Argentinian writer remembered for his short stories (1899-1986)

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There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics I refer to the infinite.

– Jorge Luis Borges

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

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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

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Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

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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.

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Life itself is a quotation.

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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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Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.

– Jorge Luis Borges

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My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.

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Nothing is built on stone all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

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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.

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

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The original is unfaithful to the translation.

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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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There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.

– Jorge Luis Borges

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

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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

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