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)

    Reading ... is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
    —Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)

    One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
    —Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)