Creative Quotations from . . .
Jorge Luis Borges
(1899-1986) born on Aug 24
Argentine "poet, short-story writer". He was leader of modernist Ultraist literary movement in S. America combining surrealism and imagism.
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F
Life itself is a quotation.

R
I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
A
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
N
"Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone."
K
"The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing."
 
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Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "Heard by Jean Baudrillard at a lecture given in Paris. In Baudrillard, "Cool Memories," ch. 5, 1987."
R: "Ficciones," 'The Babylonian Lottery'"
A: "Referring to Henley's translation of Beckford's Vathek. Sobre el 'Vathek' de William Beckford.""
N: "From "Ashleys" collection of quotations found on the Internet"
K: ""Dreamtigers," "Dead Men's Dialogue," 1964."
   



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