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alexwh: To a cat - Jorge Luís Borges. Somehow my two cats, Niño & Niña have in them something of every cat we ever had.

importantbot: "Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone." - Jorge Luis Borges

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

MiTiBennett: “Pausing” LLM training will just give OpenAI a monopoly. Terrible idea. Besides, in a few years the internet might become an unusable spam pit, like Jorge Luis Borges “Library of Babel” - a library which contained every possible 410 page book (and so it contained no information…

faustroll: Not what you remember but what remembers you: "When a man reaches a certain age, there are many things he can pretend to and have others believe; happiness is not one of them." — Jorge Luis Borges, The Memory of Shakespeare (1983)

andreinaisabelg: 4 of 5 stars to Siete noches by Jorge Luis Borges

RamonSomoza1: I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books. Jorge Luis Borges

theBAtimes: Author, writer and translator María Kodama, the widow of famed Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, passed away on Sunday at the age of 86 in Vicente López, after suffering from breast cancer.

lnputtamchetty: What a joy reading this one!!! A warm hug of Sir Borges, it feels like. True that: If one hasn't read Literature with the passion of Jorge Luis Borges, he hardly has read anything. Thoroughly enjoyed it. His gems of thoughts on different things is so lovely.

importantbot: "Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone." - Jorge Luis Borges

procrastixote: "Without set purpose at the beginning, I have devoted my now long life to literature; to teaching; to idleness; to the quiet adventures of conversation; to philology, of which I know but little; to that mysterious habit of mine, Buenos Aires..." Jorge Luis Borges

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

importantbot: "Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone." - Jorge Luis Borges

DriaPustaka: “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” ― Jorge Luis Borges

michaelanson123: “I have always come to life after coming to books”—Jorge Luis Borges

aliab2456768: To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god." — Jorge Luis Borges

mjeed0540: To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god." — Jorge Luis Borges

theBAtimes: Author, writer and translator María Kodama, the widow of famed Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, passed away on Sunday at the age of 86 in Vicente López, after suffering from breast cancer.

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danielleezzo: A little Jorge Luis Borges for your evening.

vhdaract: Jorge Luis Borges - Reviews King Kong (1933)

ricks_soph: Check out Borges on Writing Jorge Luis Borges ed by Di Giovanni Halpern MacShane Ppbk 1994

WorderFarmer: 2023, book 5: back to Jorge Luis Borges for THE ALEPH. Full of wowing moments, if not as captivating as the preceding volume.

AlyonaSchatzman: Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time. ― Jorge Luis Borges

LouisDescheemae: “When writers die they become books which is after all not too bad an incarnation.” ~ Jorge Luis Borges

Greenglenncole: I read Story of the Warrior and the Captive ... by Jorge Luis Borges

ReReadingWolfe: “Retrocausality” “Time reflections” sounds like something from a Jorge Luis Borges story or essay.

readingnooks: “Besides reading, rereading, not reading, is what counts.” ~ Jorge Luis Borges

trading_alerts_: Looking for some light reading? Check out this post about the death of María Kodama, the writer and translator who coincidentally died at the same age as her late husband, Jorge Luis Borges. Oh and did we mention she was battling breast cancer? Enjoy!

n0tecreastodo: "two little kisses because three is a lot of silver" - Jorge Luis Borges

ignoreandfly: "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." – Jorge Luis Borges

mkimdorman: Poetry is no less a mystery than anything else on earth. One or two felicitous lines can hardly stir our vanity, since they are but gifts of Chance or of the Spirit; only the mistakes belong to us. -Jorge Luis Borges (tr. Norman Thomas di Giovanni)

lbrothers: I just read the exquisite little chapbook "The Garden of Forking Paths" by Jorge Luis Borges. For publishing this tiny book (56 pages, I think in 32mo) I am almost minded to forgive the Random Penguin for its many other sins of omission and commission.

MatsPunt: Reading Jorge Luis Borges' awesome collection 'Labyrinths', encountering this at the end. So good, but man, I think Jorge just really needed a hug here...

importantbot: "Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone." - Jorge Luis Borges

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trading_alerts_: Promoting a new post about the inheritance of Jorge Luis Borges' work? Great, because who doesn't love a good fight over intellectual property? Check out the latest update on the topic, including insights from his widow, María Kodama, who unfortunately passed away recently. …

arealmensch420: Ugh Jorge Luis BORGes

RamonSomoza1: I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books. Jorge Luis Borges

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Shaharyarnaqvi2: The library is the most peaceful place. "I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of a Library." (Jorge Luis Borges )

Seba_TeUnMate_: Two English Poems de Jorge Luis Borges leído por María Kodama. "I offer you the memory of a yellow rose seen at sunset, years before you were born".

holdengraber: María Kodama, writer, translator, widow of Jorge Luis Borges and executor of his legacy and work, has died in Buenos Aires at the age of 86. Our deepest condolences.

EnglishJaun: The writer María Kodama, widow and main disseminator of the work of Jorge Luis Borges, dies

JaunNews: Maria Kodama: The widow of the famous writer Jorge Luis Borges has died

DriaPustaka: “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” ― Jorge Luis Borges

sergerobledo: “I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart; I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat”. – Jorge Luis Borges, Two English Poems.

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

cielosueloastro: “When writers die they become books which is after all not too bad an incarnation.” ~ Jorge Luis Borges

infinita_fiori: the vast night — now nothing left but the fragrance. jorge luis borges, memory

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

holdengraber: “When writers die they become books which is after all not too bad an incarnation.” ~ Jorge Luis Borges R. I. P. Maria Kodoma

importantbot: "Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone." - Jorge Luis Borges

CVSchuyler: Jorge Luis Borges wrote in This Craft of Verse: “And life is, I am sure, made of poetry. Poetry is not alien—poetry is, as we shall see, lurking round the corner. It may spring on us at any moment.” True dat. LOL. ☟ ☟ ☟

borgesbot1: American writer Jorge Luis Borges, which I did it was not be found; to be found the center, he made in scienti c theories

Greenglenncole: 5 of 5 stars to Borges and I by Jorge Luis Borges

DriaPustaka: “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” ― Jorge Luis Borges

theBAtimes: "Artificial intelligence can do a mean verbal tango, channel the immortal Jorge Luis Borges, and parse Peronism. Ease 100% inflation? Not so much." Column by Eduardo Porter, Bloomberg

mariiiamt: You will never recapture what the Persian Said in his language woven with birds and roses, When, in the sunset, before the light disperses, You wish to give words to unforgettable things. ~ Jorge Luis Borges

RamonSomoza1: I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books. Jorge Luis Borges

SarahTo55690989: I misquoted. Jorge Luis Borges. But it's basically prophetic and a reference to the 80's horror movie "Phenomena" and they achieved that flies effect with coffee, apparently. Jennifer Connelly.

importantbot: "Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone." - Jorge Luis Borges

PoetNotRockStar: “So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.” — Jorge Luis Borges; You Learn

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

debspov: "I have always imagined that Heaven would be some kind of library." Jorge Luis Borges

Somewhere_Life_: The goal of our lives should be to age gracefully. If we are not we are on a train heading in a wrong direction. We need to get off that train. We need to get on a train taking us in a better direction. A kinder, gentler place. ~ a tangled mind photo of writer Jorge Luis Borges

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

borgesbot1: United States. For a group of war, like an Argentine writer of Jorge Luis Borges, and that those ardent desert.

buliiba: “Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.” Jorge Luis Borges

ObedSaucedo7: The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges was the first piece of art about Artificial Intelligence over the earth.

Archimboldian: Protect me, Lord, from the insatiable appetite of being marble and oblivion. Protect me from being what I have been, from being what I have irreparably been. Protect me not from the sword or the red spear; but protect me from hope. --Jorge Luis Borges



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