A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.

Jorge Luis Borges

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I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?

JORGE LUIS BORGES

I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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Leave
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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Infinite
It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.

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It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.

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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake
Every man should be capable of all ideas.

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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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Fall In Love
Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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Flight
When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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Listening Order
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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Aesthetic
I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.

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I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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Known Way
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.

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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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