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Jorge Luis Borges

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His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further.


— Jorge Luis Borges


#life

So my life is a point-counterpoint, a kind of fugue, and a falling away–and everything winds up being lost to me, and everything falls into oblivion, or into the hands of the other man.


— Jorge Luis Borges


#postmodernism #life

La duda es uno de los nombres de la inteligencia.


— Jorge Luis Borges


#doubt #inteligencia #intelligence #la-duda #skepticism

Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.


— Jorge Luis Borges


#meaning #memory #reality #life

All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them.


— Jorge Luis Borges


#imagination #theory #imagination

I prayed aloud, less to plead for divine favor than to intimidate the tribe with articulate speech.


— Jorge Luis Borges


#religion #religion

Tearing money is an impiety, like throwing away bread.


— Jorge Luis Borges


#money

All men who repeat a line from Shakespeare are William Shakespeare


— Jorge Luis Borges


#men

Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms


— Jorge Luis Borges


#life #similarities #life

But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over.


— Jorge Luis Borges


#pleasure #thought #imagination






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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