Jorge Luis Borges
(1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
“Universal history is the history of a few metaphors.”
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Jorge Luis Borges
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Other Inquisitions
"Pascal’s Sphere" ["La esfera de Pascal"] (1951)
Variant translations: Perhaps universal history is the history of the diverse intonation of some metaphors.
It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.
Other Inquisitions (1952)
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