The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.
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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.Jorge Luis Borges
The infinite is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others.
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Life and death have been lacking in my life.
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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.
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