Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

• The original is unfaithful to the translation.

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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 Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

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• The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.

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• The central problem of novel-writing is causality.

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• Reality is not always probable, or likely.

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• Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

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• Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

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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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• Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

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• My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.

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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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• Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

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• Life itself is a quotation.

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• Life and death have been lacking in my life.

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• In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.

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• In general, every country has the language it deserves.

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• I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.

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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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• Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

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Jorge Luis Borges (43)

Birth:	24th August, 1899
Death:	14th June, 1986
Nationality:	Argentinean
Profession:	Essayist, Poet, Translator, Writer

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