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Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges
Argentinian Poet
Born: Aug 24, 1899
Died: Jun 14, 1986
Always Ethics Life Man More Will
Related authors: Emily Dickinson Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Khalil Gibran Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost Sophocles Walt Whitman
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. Jorge Luis Borges
Library Will Paradise Imagination Kind Always Imagined
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
Time Me Made Fire Carries River Consumes Along Tiger Am Substance Which
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
Life Man Made Single Once Out Finds He Single Moment Up Any Which Moment Who
Democracy is an abuse of statistics. Jorge Luis Borges
Government Democracy Statistics Abuse
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. Jorge Luis Borges
Love God Religion Love Is Fall Fallible Create
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream. Jorge Luis Borges
Writing Nothing Guided Dream More Than
My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out. Jorge Luis Borges
Difficult Out Carry Immortal Only Undertaking Essentially Should
Life itself is a quotation. Jorge Luis Borges
Life Itself Quotation
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
Memory Solitude Walk Thinking Our Pleases Details Through Because Without Does Idle Just Cannot Suburbs Us Night
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb. Jorge Luis Borges
Fight Men Comb Between Over Bald Thing Two
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
Speak Ethics Evil Others Destroyer Empire Concept Limited Infinite Whose
Reality is not always probable, or likely. Jorge Luis Borges
Reality Likely Always Probable
Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety. Jorge Luis Borges
Library Not Knowing Those Guilty Possessing Entirety He Like Knowing His Aware
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. Jorge Luis Borges
Worth Nothing Posterity More Contemporary Than Which Flattery Much
I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks. Jorge Luis Borges
Unknown State Uncertainty Known Greeks
The central problem of novel-writing is causality. Jorge Luis Borges
Problem Causality Central
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
Others Coronation Causes Source Effects Infinite Order Literature Act Series

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