Quotes From "The Book Of Imaginary Beings" By Jorge Luis Borges

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The famed author Robert Lewis Stevenson declared that he'd trained his Brownies to be writers. As he slept, they would whisper fantastic plots in his ear -- for example, the strange case of Dr. Jekyll and the diabolical Mr. Hyde, and that episode in "Olalla" when a young man from an old Spanish family bites his sister's hand. Jorge Luis Borges
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We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe. Jorge Luis Borges
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We are ignorant of the meaning of the dragon in the same way that we are ignorant of the meaning of the universe; but there is something in the dragon’s image that fits man’s imagination, and this accounts for the dragon’s appearance in different places and periods. Jorge Luis Borges