Borges

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“In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and theories are nothing more than stimuli and that the final work usually ignores or even contradicts them.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)

“The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)

“Perhaps universal history is the history of the diverse intonation of some metaphors.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)