In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.
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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.Jorge Luis Borges
Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
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Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
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Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.
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I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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