Luis Borges

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Jorge Luis Borges
... Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges (24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986), known as Jorge Luis Borges, was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires ... set the beginning of this movement with Borges's Historia universal de la infamia (A Universal History of Infamy) (1935) ... Scholars have also suggested that Borges's progressive blindness helped him to create innovative literary symbols through imagination ...

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    “Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.”
    —Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)

    “The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.”
    —Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)

    “The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to contruct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the others like a Platonic archetype, an object whose virtues are not diminished by the passage of time.”
    —Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)

    “Reading ... is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.”
    —Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)