Quote #40
Life and death have been lacking in my life.
More from Jorge Luis Borges
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- The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to contruct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the others like a P…
- A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given…
- Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.
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