3 December 2020 Jorge Luis Borges The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.
3 December 2020 Jorge Luis Borges 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.
3 December 2020 Jorge Luis Borges Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
3 December 2020 Jorge Luis Borges To be immortal is commonplace except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
3 December 2020 Jorge Luis Borges Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
3 December 2020 Jorge Luis Borges 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.
