Jorge Luis Borges

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. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

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The central problem of novel-writing is causality. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

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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. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

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

— Jorge Luis Borges

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There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

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Nowadays we are fond of literal translations...That would have seemed a crime to translators in ages past...They wanted to prove that the vernacular was as capable of a great poem as the original. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

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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. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

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I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

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