“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 much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.”
Jorge Luis Borges
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“In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and theories are nothing more than stimuli and that the final work usually ignores or even contradicts them.”
Jorge Luis Borges
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“A book is not an autonomous entity: it is a relation, an axis of innumerable relations. One literature differs from another, be it earlier or later, not because of the texts but because of the way they are read: if I could read any page from the present time–this one, for instance–as it will be read in the year 2000, I would know what the literature of the year 2000 would be like.”
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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“Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.”
Jorge Luis Borges
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“Universal history is the history of a few metaphors.”
Jorge Luis Borges
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“Perhaps universal history is the history of the diverse intonation of some metaphors.”
Jorge Luis Borges
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“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
Jorge Luis Borges
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“Life and death have been lacking in my life.”
Jorge Luis Borges
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“Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.”
Jorge Luis Borges
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“Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told us something that we should not have missed, or they are about to tell us something; this imminence of a revelation that is not produced is, perhaps, the esthetic event.”
Jorge Luis Borges
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“Life itself is a quotation.”
Jorge Luis Borges
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“The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.”
Jorge Luis Borges
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“The original is unfaithful to the translation.”
Jorge Luis Borges
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“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”
Jorge Luis Borges
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