Novels include padding; I think padding may be an essential part of the novel, for all I know.
Weitere Zitate von Jorge Luis Borges
Zum Autor"There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others.I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite."
"Reading . . . Is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual."
"The image of the Lord has been replaced by a mirror."
"We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it."
"Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on meand treating me badly."
"There is nothing but quotations left for us. Our language is a system of quotations."