"The certainty that everything has already been written……" — Jorge Luis Borges
"The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal."
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239 Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges has 239 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- Reality is not always probable, or likely.
- The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all…
- Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
- I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will…
- Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
- Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.
- My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
- Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
- The central problem of novel-writing is causality.
- The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
- The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
- I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
More Annuls Quotes
This quote is filed under Annuls Quotes, one of 2 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
- Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free. — Ralph Waldo Emerson