Borges

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    Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.
    —Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)

    In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.
    —Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)

    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.
    —Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)