Jorge Luis Borges: Reading … is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

Reading … is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more — Jorge Luis Borges

Reading … is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

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Life itself is a quotation. — Jorge Luis Borges
Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend t — Jorge Luis Borges
I leave to the various futures (not to all) my garden of forking paths. — Jorge Luis Borges
Fame is a form—perhaps the worst form—of incomprehension. — Jorge Luis Borges
The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can affor — George Bernard Shaw
If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we w — William Shakespeare
In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowaday — Oscar Wilde
There are people whom even children’s literature would corrupt. They read with p — Anton Chekhov
Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Why should I not regard this as desirable—not because the fire, burns me, but be — Seneca
La duda es uno de los nombres de la inteligencia. — Jorge Luis Borges
If we prefer to trace a lineage within the Left , drawing on the Enlightenment's — Jean-Jacques Rousseau