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Argentinian Poet, Writer August 24, 1899 – June 14, 1986

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Jorge Luis Borges quote: "To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god."
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. Jorge Luis Borges
On February 14, I received a telegram from Buenos Aires urging me to return home immediately; my father was "not at all well." God forgive me, but the prestige of being the recipient of an urgent telegram, the desire to communicate to all of Fray Bentos the contradiction between the negative form of the news and the absoluteness of the adverbial phrase, the temptation to dramatize my grief by feigning a virile stoicism-all this perhaps distracted me from any possibility of real pain. Jorge Luis Borges
He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety. Jorge Luis Borges
God has created nights well-populatedwith dreams, crowded with mirror images, so that man may feel that he is nothing morethan vain reflection. That's what frightens us. Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges quote: "God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy..."
God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us. Jorge Luis Borges
In Book VIII of the Odyssey we read that the gods weave misfortunes into the pattern of events to make a song for future generations to sing.---------- . ( . ) Jorge Luis Borges
No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist. Jorge Luis Borges
It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha. Jorge Luis Borges
Let neither tear nor reproach besmirchthis declaration of the masteryof God who, with magnificent irony, granted me both the gift of books and the night. Jorge Luis Borges
Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant. Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges quote: "God is more generous than men and will measure them by a..."
God is more generous than men and will measure them by a different standard. Jorge Luis Borges

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