The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is im…

Jorge Luis Borges
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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said. Looking for metaphors, for example: When I was a young man I was always hunting for new metaphors. Then I found out that really good metaphors are always the same.
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For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end. ✨ Jorge Luis Borges (1964). Dreamtigers, p.42, University of Texas Press
The original is unfaithful to the translation. ✨ Sobre el Vathekde William Beckford (1943) in Obras Completas (1974) p. 730
Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government. ✨ Jorge Luis Borges (2005). Brodie's Report: Including the Prose Fiction from In Praise of Darkne … ▶
Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future. ✨ Kafka and His Precursors (1951) (translation by James E. Irby)

The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said. Looking for metaphors, for example: When I was a young man I was always hunting for new metaphors. Then I found out that really good metaphors are always the same.

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