Jorge Luis Borges on Reality, Writing, Literature, and More
I am not sure that I exist, actually.
I am the writers that I have read; the people that I have I have met; the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
— Jorge Luis Borges, 1981
I am the writers that I have read; the people that I have I have met; the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
— Jorge Luis Borges, 1981
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Perhaps, as Borges concludes in his story, it is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. “To think,” Borges writes, “is to forget.”
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