Luis Borges

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    I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
    —Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)

    The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
    —Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)

    Every writer “creates” his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
    —Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)