Jorge Luis Borges
» Influence » “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.”
» Literature » “Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.”
» Love » “To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”
» Night » “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.”
» Originality » “The original is unfaithful to the translation.”
» Posterity » “The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.”
» Procrastination » “The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.”
» Quotations » “Life itself is a quotation.”
» Time and Time Management » “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.”
» Writers and Writing » “Every writer ”creates” his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.”
» Writers and Writing » “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.”
