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Jorge Luis Borges
(24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986 / Buenos Aires / Argentina)
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Jorge Luis Borges Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo was an Argentine writer and poet born in Buenos Aires. In 1914, his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school and traveled to Spain. On his return to Argentina in 1921, Borges began publishing his poems and essays in Surrealist literary journals. He also worked as a librarian and public lecturer. Borges was bilingual, speaking both Spanish and English. He was a target of political persecution during the Peron regime. more >>
 
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''I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.''
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Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), Argentinean author. "A New Refutation of Time," Labyrinths (1964).
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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 f...
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Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), Argentinian author. "A New Refutation of Time," Labyrinths (1964).
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Agustin Navarro (11/6/2011 10:45:00 PM)
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Instants...my favorite poem related to the enjoyment of life...the original Spanish version is superb! ! It is one of the best jewels of philosophical poetry...a wonderful and practical lesson for all...

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Jessie Bernabe Cadsawan (8/19/2009 8:03:00 PM)
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The Moment

Where will they be the centuries, where the sleep
of swords that the Tartar ones dreamed,
where the strong walls that they levelled,
where Adán's Tree and another Log?
The present is alone. The memory
it erects the time. Succession and trick
it is the routine of the clock. The year
it is not less vain than the vain history.
Between the dawn and the night there is an abyss
of agonies, of lights, of taken care;
the face that looks in the worn-out ones
the same is not mirrors of the night.
The fleeting today is tenuous and it is eternal;
another Sky do not wait, not another Hell.

A clear vision of changes.

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