Argentinian - Poet | August 24, 1899 - June 14, 1986
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.
Jorge Luis Borges
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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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Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.
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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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The central problem of novel-writing is causality.
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
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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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