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Jorge Luis Borges
August 24, 1899 - June 14, 1986
Nationality: Argentinian
Category: Poet

There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.

   

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

   

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.

   

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

   

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

   

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

   

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

   

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

   

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

   

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

   

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.

   

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