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Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies – for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry – I say to myself, “What a pity I can’t buy that book, for I already have a copy at home.Jorge Luis Borges
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If we think of the novel and the epic... The difference lies in the fact that the important thing about the epic is a hero--a man who is a pattern for all men. While, as Mencken pointed out, the essence of most novels lies in the breaking down of a man, in the degeneration of character.Jorge Luis Borges
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Novels include padding; I think padding may be an essential part of the novel, for all I know.Jorge Luis Borges