Jorge Luis Borges Quote

The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.


Shakespeare's Memory, (1983); as translated by Andrew Hurley in Collected Fictions (1998)


The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the...

The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the...

The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the...

The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the...