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“Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.”
― Jorge Luis Borges
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“Emma dropped the paper. Her first impression was of a weak feeling in her stomach and in her knees; then of blind guilt, of unreality, of coldness, of fear; then she wished that it were already the next day. Immediately afterwards she realized that that wish was futile because the death of her father was the only thing that had happened in the world, and it would go on happening endlessly.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph and Other Stories
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“In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future."
-- Essay: "Kafka and his Precursors”
― Jorge Luis Borges
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“Fácilmente aceptamos la realidad, acaso porque intuimos que nada es Real”
― Jorge Luis Borges, El Aleph
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“Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment —
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Selected Non-Fictions Quotes
“The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all of my instants would be provisional phases, annihilators of the past turned to face the future, and that beyond the episodic, the present, the circumstantial, we were nobody.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Non-Fictions
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“His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Collected Non Fiction
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“I think—the hero observes that nothing is so frightening as a labyrinth with no center.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Non-Fictions
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“We must not be too prodigal with our angels; they are the last divinities we harbor, and they might fly away.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Non-Fictions
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“He [Omar Khayyam] is an atheist, but knows how to interpret in orthodox style the most difficult passages of the Koran; for every educated man is a theologian and faith is not a requisite.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Non-Fictions
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“The European and the North American consider that a book that has been a