Jorge Luis Borges
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"Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges" Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire/KBE (24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986), was an Argentine people/Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish literature/Spanish language literature. His work embraces the "character of unreality in all literature". His best-known books, Ficciones (Fictions) and The Aleph (short story collection)/The Aleph (El Aleph), published in the 1940s, are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, philosophy, and religion.

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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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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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Reality is not always probable, or likely.

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Life itself is a quotation.

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

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

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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

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

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

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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.

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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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