Jorge Luis Borges: Censorship is the mother of metaphor .

Censorship is the mother of metaphor . — Jorge Luis Borges

Censorship is the mother of metaphor .

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Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic. — Jorge Luis Borges
Besides, time, which despoils castles, enriches verses . . . Time broadens the s — Jorge Luis Borges
Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you ha — Jorge Luis Borges
I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that — Jorge Luis Borges
There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging. — Napoleon
Wherever slavery is, it has been first introduced without law. The oldest laws w — Abraham Lincoln
But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its o — Karl Marx
It would be better to have no laws at all than to have them in such profusion as — Michel de Montaigne
There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indig — Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib
The wise man never heard a joke But living wisdom from it broke; The fool no wis — Saadi
Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; anima — Leonardo da Vinci
I make my war upon privilege and authority, whereby the right of property , the — Voltairine de Cleyre