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Them Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges
- 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…
- I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
- Had I to give advice to writers (and I do not think they need it, because everyone has to find out things for himself), I…
- 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…
- When you reach my age, you realize you couldn't have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first…
- The web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect, or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces "every" possibility.…
- All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them.
- Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I…
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