Jorge Luis Borges: Like every writer, he measured the virtues of other writers by their performance, and asked that they measure him by wha

Like every writer, he measured the virtues of other writers by their performance — Jorge Luis Borges

Like every writer, he measured the virtues of other writers by their performance, and asked that they measure him by what he conjectured or planned.

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El infierno y el paraíso me parecen desproporcionados. Los actos de los hombres — Jorge Luis Borges
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gap — Jorge Luis Borges
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality. — Jorge Luis Borges
In life, he suffered from a sense of unreality, as do many Englishmen. — Jorge Luis Borges
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. — Henry David Thoreau
La difficulté d'écrire l'anglais m'est extrêmement ennuyeuse. Ah, mon Dieu! si l — Charles Dickens
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. — Benjamin Franklin
Slavs: writers who write between the lines instead of writing on them. — Jules Renard
Deep in the man sits fast his fate To mould his fortunes, mean or great. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To no creature besides man has been given wisdom, foresight, industry, and refle — Seneca
He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. — John the Evangelist
Life, believe, is not a dream, So dark as sages say; Oft a little morning rain F — Charlotte Brontë