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Past Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges
- Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
- I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future . . . I felt…
- In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The fact is that…
- I can’t talk about my books. I have written them and tried to forget them. I have written once, and readers have read me many…
- Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
- What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?
- The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all of my instants…
- Not a single star will be left in the night. The night will not be left. I will die and, with me, the weight of…
- 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…
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