Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

"I sometimes think that good readers are poets as singular, and as awesome, as great authors themselves."

• From Jorge Luis Borges' preface to A Universal History of Iniquity (originally published c. 1935), translated by Andrew Hurley in Jorge Luis Borges: Collected Fictions (Penguin Classics, 1998).

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Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges (Argentine author, c. 1899-1986)

"There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one."

• From Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrinth by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Andrew Hurley (Penguin Classics, 1998).

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Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)

"There are many men adept in those diverse disciplines, but few capable of imagination - fewer still capable of subordination imagination to a rigorous and systematic plan. The plan is so vast that the contribution of each writer is infinitesimal."

From "Tlön Uqbar Orbis Tertius"

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