38 ordspråk av Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges föddes den August 24th 1899 och dog den 14 June 1986 - Argentinian writer
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 Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is. |
| Democracy is an abuse of statistics. |
| Every writer ''creates'' his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future. |
| 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. |
| I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left. |
| I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. |
| I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. |
| 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. |
| Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| The original is unfaithful to the translation. |
| 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. |
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