Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges
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Every writer ''creates'' his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
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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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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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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.
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My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
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One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.
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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 fire.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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