Quote #42

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 Platonic archetype, an object whose virtues are not diminished by the passage of time.

More from Jorge Luis Borges

  1. Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.
  2. Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.
  3. Life and death have been lacking in my life.
  4. It is known that Whistler when asked how long it took him to paint one of his 'nocturnes' answered: 'All of my life.' With the same rigor h…
  5. Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the …
  6. We (the indivisible divinity that works in us) have dreamed the world. We have dreamed it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in spa…
  7. Life itself is a quotation.
  8. Hay un concepto que es el corruptor y el desatinador de los otros. No hablo del mal cuyo limitado imperio es la etica; hablo del infinito.

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