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

Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

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

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

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

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

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

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man...

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man...

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that...

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that...

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak...

There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak...

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

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

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are...

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are...

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of...

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of...

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that...

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that...

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be...

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be...

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as...

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as...

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not...

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not...

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

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

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.