Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.
Jorge Luis Borges
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Author Details:
Type:
Poet Quotes
Category:
Quotes
Date of Birth:
August 24, 1899
Date of Death:
June 14, 1986
Nationality:
Argentinian
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Maya Angelou
Kahlil Gibran
Ogden Nash
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edgar Allan Poe
Walt Whitman
Langston Hughes
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Select Jorge Luis Borges Quotations:
Life and death have been lacking in my life.
Jorge Luis Borges
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
Jorge Luis Borges
Life itself is a quotation.
Jorge Luis Borges
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
Jorge Luis Borges
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
Jorge Luis Borges
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
Jorge Luis Borges
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.
Jorge Luis Borges
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Conception,
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Fact,
Future,
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Modify,
Our,
Past,
Precursors,
Their,
Work,
Writers
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All Jorge Luis Borges Quotations:
Any life is made up of...
Art always opts for the individual...
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
I cannot walk through the suburbs...
I foresee that man will resign...
I have always imagined that Paradise...
I have known uncertainty: a state...
In general, every country has the...
In the order of literature, as...
Life and death have been lacking...
Life itself is a quotation.
Like all those possessing a library...
Like all writers, he measured the...
My undertaking is not difficult, essentially...
Nothing is built on stone; all...
One concept corrupts and confuses the...
Poetry remembers that it was an...
Reading is an activity subsequent to...
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
The central problem of novel-writing...
The fact is that all writers...
The Falklands thing was a fight...
The flattery of posterity is not...
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
The truth is that we live...
There is a concept that is...
Time is the substance from which...
To be immortal is commonplace; except...
To die for a religion is...
To fall in love is to...
Writing is nothing more than a...
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