Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

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In general, every country has the language it deserves.

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

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...

Life itself is a quotation.

Life itself is a quotation.

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 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...

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

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...

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

...the image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror.

...the image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror.

Man is the measure of all things.

Man is the measure of all things.

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 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...

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.