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A ... poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor. — Jorge Luis Borges

Bad people are intriguing! — Jorge Garcia

When you're aggressive behind the plate, calling a game, that's when you're at your best. You can't be tentative. — Jorge Posada

The only thing that matters is when the team wins. — Jorge Posada

With relief, with humiliation, with terror, he understood that he too was a mere appearance, dreamt by another. — Jorge Luis Borges

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. — Jorge Luis Borges

We are our memory,
we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes,
that pile of broken mirrors. — Jorge Luis Borges

I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes. — Jorge Luis Borges

All writing is dreaming — Jorge Luis Borges

Paradise will be a kind of library — Jorge Luis Borges

The most important responsibility we have as journalists is to question those who are in power. I honestly believe that. — Jorge Ramos

Not all who are lost are lost forever. — Jorge Enrique Ponce

Love
the most wonderful and most terrible thing in the world. — Jorge Amado

Life was good, one had only to live it. — Jorge Amado

I'm under no illusions about the importance of my work. But if it has any worth, it is that it truly reflects the Brazilian people. — Jorge Amado

Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time. — Jorge Amado

Once you are an immigrant, you never forget that you are one. — Jorge Ramos

That's always a cool thing to be the voice of what the eyes are seeing. It gives you the role of the Greek chorus and that's always fun to do. — Jorge Garcia

Reality is not always probable, or likely. — Jorge Luis Borges

I have always had this necessity to win. When I played with my friends on the street, football or running, I always wanted to be the best, — Jorge Lorenzo

Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life. — Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges: "I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library." "The — Suzanne Kelman

A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated. — Jorge Luis Borges

A writer always begins by being too complicated - he's playing at several games at once. — Jorge Luis Borges

The central problem of novel-writing is causality. — Jorge Luis Borges

There is a Talmudic legend about three men who go in search of God. One became insane, the other died, and the third met himself. — Jorge Luis Borges

When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone — Jorge Luis Borges

The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral ... — Jorge Luis Borges

In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry. — Jorge Luis Borges

My memory, sir, is like a garbage disposal. — Jorge Luis Borges

I leave to various future times, but not to all, my garden of forking paths. — Jorge Luis Borges

I don't think esthetic schools are important. What is important is the use that is made of them, or whatever the individual writer does. — Jorge Luis Borges

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. — Jorge Luis Borges

Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him. — Jorge Luis Borges

It seemed incredible to me that day without premonitions or symbols should be the one of my inexorable death . — Jorge Luis Borges

The fact is that each writer creates his own precursors. — Jorge Luis Borges

Unappreciated because too many of his [Rudyard Kipling's] peers were socialists. — Jorge Luis Borges

Life is very nice in Hawaii. I rent a place that has its own cottage so when my friends and family come to visit, they have somewhere nice to stay. — Jorge Garcia

Don't be afraid to grow up, Peter. It's only a trap if you forget how to fly. — Jorge Enrique Ponce

The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries. — Jorge Luis Borges

To refute him is to become contaminated with unreality. — Jorge Luis Borges

Words, displaced and mutilated words, words of others, were the poor pittance left him by the hours and the centuries. — Jorge Luis Borges

I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else. — Jorge Luis Borges

There is no greater comfort than the idea that we have chosen our own misfortunes. — Jorge Luis Borges

I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection. — Jorge Luis Borges

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy. — Jorge Luis Borges

When a writer dies, he becomes his books. — Jorge Luis Borges

Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers. — Jorge Luis Borges

My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges. — Jorge Luis Borges

I know what the Greeks do not know, incertitude. — Jorge Luis Borges

The fact is that every author creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future. — Jorge Luis Borges

My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read. — Jorge Luis Borges

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely. — Jorge Luis Borges

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. — Jorge Luis Borges

I prayed aloud, less to plead for divine favor than to intimidate the tribe with articulate speech. — Jorge Luis Borges

I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the colour of a rose in Bengal. — Jorge Luis Borges

Misery requires paradises lost — Jorge Luis Borges

I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose. — Jorge Luis Borges

She was a glass snake. She wasn't poisonous but she sowed affliction just by going among men-mysteriously, like a miracle" (385) — Jorge Amado

I think I went on a nice winning streak of about 20 fights until I fought Jorge Reyes and he stopped me in 6 rounds after I punched myself out. — Alexis Arguello

It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors. — Jorge Luis Borges

What I find most interesting about the U.S. is this idea of equality. — Jorge Ramos

Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. — Jorge Luis Borges

A small pepperoni pizza on a tortilla is healthier than salmon teriyaki with rice and carrots. — Jorge Cruise

Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men. — Jorge Luis Borges

Strong as were the elements, he was stronger. — Jorge Castro Tejerina

I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification. — Jorge Luis Borges

While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one — Jorge Luis Borges

There are people who barely feel poetry, and they are generally dedicated to teaching it. — Jorge Luis Borges

The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps. — Jorge Luis Borges

Each thing implies the universe. — Jorge Luis Borges

All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them. — Jorge Luis Borges

If you want to lose weight, whole-wheat bread, couscous, and quinoa are evil. — Jorge Cruise

All language is a set of symbols whose use among its speakers assumes a share past — Jorge Luis Borges

Any time gone by was better. — Jorge Manrique

Day and night, their fail and crippled ships defy the tempest. — Jorge Luis Borges

Time is living me. — Jorge Luis Borges

Capital wants to make us believe that we are what we sell. But we are what we give away. — Jorge Riechmann

I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me. — Jorge Luis Borges

When I write, I make my memories tangible, and in this way I can get rid of them. — Jorge Semprun

He felt his heart was going to explode, his body burned while his mind tried to reconstitute the ashes of who he once had been. — Jorge Silva Rodighiero

.....a miracle has the right to impose conditions. — Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge already did - checked the Berg tracking system. They went to a city called Denver. — James Dashner

The world is like that
incomprehensible and full of surprises . — Jorge Amado

Every pound of muscle burns approximately 50 calories every day, just doing nothing. — Jorge Cruise

When a person reaches a certain age, there are many things he or she can feign: happiness is not one of them
-- Jorge Luis Borges — Paul Illidge

I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done. — Jorge Luis Borges

Censorship is the mother of metaphor. — Jorge Luis Borges

Solitude weighs me down. Company does too. — Jorge Luis Borges

Can you do that?" Thomas asked.
"Huh?"
"Kill someone three times."
"I'd figure out a way. — James Dashner

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

I just enjoy the ride while I have it. — Jorge Garcia

I think most people are more important than their opinions. — Jorge Luis Borges

You have to go through a mental and emotional process to recognize who you really are. I finally recognized that I cannot be defined by one country. — Jorge Ramos

The story of two dreams is a coincidence, a line drawn by chance, like the shapes of lions or horses that are sometimes formed by clouds. — Jorge Luis Borges

Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives. — Jorge Garcia

The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal. — Jorge Luis Borges

The image of the Lord has been replaced by a mirror. — Jorge Luis Borges

Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius. — Jorge Luis Borges

It's enough that if I am rich in anything, it is in perplexities rather then in certaintes. — Jorge Luis Borges