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

Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

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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.

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 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.

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

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

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

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...

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose...

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose...

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

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

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...

Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays,...

Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays,...

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...

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that...

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that...

...the image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror.

...the image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror.

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...

Death (or its allusion) makes men precious and pathetic. They are moving because of their...

Death (or its allusion) makes men precious and pathetic. They are moving because of their...

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

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...

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...