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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
Jorge Luis Borges
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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.
Jorge Luis Borges
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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
Jorge Luis Borges
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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.
Jorge Luis Borges
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
Jorge Luis Borges
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I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
Jorge Luis Borges
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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.
Jorge Luis Borges
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
Jorge Luis Borges
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In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.
Jorge Luis Borges
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
Jorge Luis Borges
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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.
Jorge Luis Borges
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