The central problem of novel-writing is causality.

Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

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

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

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

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

Life itself is a quotation.

Life itself is a quotation.

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

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...

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...

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.

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.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it...

I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it...

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,...

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.

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

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

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...

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something...

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something...

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a...

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a...

Immortality is the genius to move others long after you yourself have stopped moving

Immortality is the genius to move others long after you yourself have stopped moving