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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone - Jorge Borges Quotes

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left. - Jorge Borges Quotes

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety. - Jorge Borges Quotes

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

Every writer ''creates'' his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future. - Jorge Borges Quotes

Every writer ''creates'' his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

Future Writers And Writing

The original is unfaithful to the translation. - Jorge Borges Quotes

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

...the image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror. - Jorge Borges Quotes

...the image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror.

Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face. - Jorge Borges Quotes

Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face.

Man

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

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

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does. - Jorge Borges Quotes

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

Night

I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death.... Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body? - Jorge Borges Quotes

I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death.... Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?

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