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Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo KBE (/ˈbɔːrhɛs/; Spanish: [ˈxorxe ˈlwis ˈborxes] audio (help·info); 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish-language literature. His best-known books, Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph (The 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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Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

Accomplished, Enterprise, Irrevocable, Past, Should, Undertake

The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral.

Art, Ephemeral, Mysterious, Opinions, Writing

The web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect, or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces "every" possibility. We do not exist in most of them. In some you exist and not I, while in others I do, and you do not, and in yet others both of us exist.

Bifurcate, Century, Embrace, Ignore, Intersect, Possibility

No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.

Continually, Eight, Poetry, Twelve, Two

Im merely a dreamer, and then a writer, and my happiest moments are when I'm a reader.

Dreamer, Happiest, Moments, Reader, Writer

If I write a fantastic story, I'm not writing something willful. On the contrary, I am writing something that stands for my feelings, or for my thoughts. So that, in a sense, a fantastic story is as real and perhaps more real than a mere circumstantial story. Because after all, circumstances come and go, and symbols remain.

Circumstances, Circumstantial, Feelings, Real, Symbols, Writing

When you reach my age, you realize you couldn't have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.

Age, Done, Firsts, Reach, Realize

I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. . . I have not been happy.

Commit, Committed, Happy, Sin, Worst

I. . . have always known that my destiny was, above all, a literary destiny — that bad things and some good things would happen to me, but that, in the long run, all of it would be converted into words. Particularly the bad things, since happiness does not need to be transformed: happiness is its own end.

Running, Destiny, Long, Transformed, Happen

The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.

Art, Infinite, Possibilities, Possibility, Tend

In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.

Cause, Dream, Explain, Represent, Thinking, Writing

Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor

See, Sin, Splendor, Unforgivable, Unforgivable Sin

He consorted with prostitutes and poets. . . and with persons even worse.

Consorted, Persons, Poet, Prostitutes, Worse

Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.

Art, Endless, Flowing, Passing, Rivers

When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.

Actors, Ceases, He Man, Longer, Men, Observes

In vain have oceans been squandered on you, in vain the sun, wonderfully seen through Whitman’s eyes. You have used up the years and they have used up you, and still, and still, you have not written the poem.

Eye, Eyes, Ocean, Poem, Whitmans, Years

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.

Country, Fireflies, Firefly, Moments, Streams, Sunset

Time can't be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.

Different, Measured, Perhaps, Time, Way

The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said. Looking for metaphors, for example: When I was a young man I was always hunting for new metaphors. Then I found out that really good metaphors are always the same.

Hunting, Important, Literature, Men, Metaphors, Said

He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.

Exchange, God, Prayer, Prayers, Religious, Secret

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