New Delhi, May 10 -- The other one, Borges, is the one to whom things happen . It would be an exaggeration to say that our relationship is hostile; I live, I keep on living, so that Borges can weave his literature, and that literature justifies me. Spinoza understood that all things want to go on being themselves; the stone eternally wishes to be stone, and the tiger a tiger. I am forced to survive as Borges, not myself (if I am a self), yet, I recognise myself less in his books than in many others, less too than in the studious strumming of a guitar . Thus, my life is a flight and I will lose all and all will belong to oblivion, or to that other
- Jorge Luis Borges, 'Borges and I'
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