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Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience in a garden should contaminate all humanity; for that reason it is not unjust that the crucifixion of a single Jew should be sufficient to save it.
— Jorge Luis Borges Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
Tags: philosophy, fiction

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Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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