More from Jorge Luis Borges

  1. Que el cielo exista, aunque mi lugar sea el infierno.
  2. El original es infiel a la traduccion.
  3. The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries, with vast air…
  4. I saw the delicate bone structure of a hand; I saw the survivors of a battle sending out post cards. . . I saw the oblique shadow of some f…
  5. Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
  6. Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster…
  7. Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.
  8. There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstan…

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