Borges

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“A book is not an autonomous entity: it is a relation, an axis of innumerable relations. One literature differs from another, be it earlier or later, not because of the texts but because of the way they are read: if I could read any page from the present time—this one, for instance—as it will be read in the year 2000, I would know what the literature of the year 2000 would be like.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)

“Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.”
—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)