"I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited."

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Source : "Jorge Luis Borges 112th birthday marked by Google Doodle", www.telegraph.co.uk. August 24, 2011.

Jorge Luis Borges

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“Buddhism teaches that a craving for things outside ourselves causes an unhappy and pointless search for security. It teaches me to stop following every impulse and to learn restraint. Obviously, I lost track of what I was taught.”
“I ran for Congress not because I was having a mid-life crisis. I left the private sector because I saw a looming financial crisis that was coming to this country. It's unsustainable.”
“The machine has no feelings, it feels no fear and no hope ... it operates according to the pure logic of probability. For this reason I assert that the robot perceives more accurately than man.”
“Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.”
“To be still means to empty yourself from the incessant flow of thoughts and create a state of consciousness that is open and receptive.”
“Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.”
“I'm not sure I understand how responsibility for our choices makes sense if they are not determined.”
“When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.”

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