Jorge Luis Borges: Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we

Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but pho — Jorge Luis Borges

Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.

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Reading … is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more — Jorge Luis Borges
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor. — Jorge Luis Borges
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Universal history is the history of a few metaphors. — Jorge Luis Borges
No more fiction for us: we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make — Friedrich Nietzsche
To romanticize a peasant is almost an insult to his misery. The peasant has no h — Jules Renard
From the moment I start a new novel, life’s just one endless torture. — Émile Zola
The great characters of fiction live as truly as the memories of dead men. For t — Samuel Butler
From pro's and con's they fell to a warmer way of disputing. — Miguel de Cervantes
Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fall — Rumi
As a stone which is changed into a pure ruby Is filled with the bright light of — Rumi
Nimirum hic ego sum. — Here indeed I am; this is my position. Horace