Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
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Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.Jorge Luis Borges
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
Jorge Luis Borges
The infinite is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others.
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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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