8 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.

Writers

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Life itself is a quotation.

Quotations

4.2 · 49 votes

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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.

Writers

3.4 · 28 votes · 141 reads

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Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so m

Literature

4.2 · 59 votes

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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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Jorge Luis Borges

Virtues
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
3.3 · 33 votes · 183 reads
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Defects
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.
3.6 · 45 votes · 109 reads
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Feelings
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
3.2 · 16 votes · 198 reads
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