Jorge Luis Borges Quote

If the pages of this book contain some successful verse, the reader must excuse me the discourtesy of having usurped it first. Our nothingness differs little; it is a trivial and chance circumstance that you should be the reader of these exercises and I their author.


"To the Reader" ["A quien leyere"], preface to Fervor of Buenos Aires [Fervor de Buenos Aires] (1923)


If the pages of this book contain some successful verse, the reader must excuse me the discourtesy of having usurped it first. Our nothingness...

If the pages of this book contain some successful verse, the reader must excuse me the discourtesy of having usurped it first. Our nothingness...

If the pages of this book contain some successful verse, the reader must excuse me the discourtesy of having usurped it first. Our nothingness...

If the pages of this book contain some successful verse, the reader must excuse me the discourtesy of having usurped it first. Our nothingness...