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Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

“For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.”

Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

Book:Dreamtigers

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This book delves into the realm of dreams and imagination through a series of short stories that blur the lines between reality and fantasy. more

Author

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges was an Argentine writer, poet, and literary critic. His works are known for their unique fantasy and philosophical thinking, which have had a profound impact on 20th-century literature. more

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“Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.”

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird's cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.”

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Book:Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

Source: Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

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“That one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox.”

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“In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.”

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Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death.”

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Book:Ficciones

Source: Ficciones

“Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination will reject it.”

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Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.”

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“We (the indivisible divinity that works in us) have dreamed the world. We have dreamed it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in space and firm in time, but we have allowed slight, and eternal, bits of the irrational to form part of its architecture so as to know that it is false.”

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“On the floor, and hanging on to the bar, squatted an old man, immobile as an object. His years had reduced and polished him as water does a stone or the generations of men do a sentence.”

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Book:A Personal Anthology

Source: A Personal Anthology