If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library. - Jorge Luis Borges - Quotesmemo.com

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Jorge Luis Borges

If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library.

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The Novelist As Teacher”: “I would be quite satisfied if my novels (especially the ones I set in the past) did no more than teach my readers that their past – with all its imperfections – was not one long night of savagery from which the first Europeans acting on God’s behalf delivered them.

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