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Whatsoever one man does, it is as though all men did it.
Jorge Luis Borges, from his short story “The Shape of the Sword.” -

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It is a laborious madness and an impoverishing one, the madness of composing vast books — setting out in five hundred pages an idea that can be perfectly related orally in five minutes. The better way to go about it is to pretend that those books already exist, and offer a summary, a commentary on them.
Jorge Luis Borges, from the foreword to his Garden of Forking Paths