“My undertaking is not difficult, essentially… I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.”
"Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" ["Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote"]
The Garden of Forking Paths (1942)
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Jorge Luis Borges 213
Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator… 1899–1986Related quotes

As quoted in Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life by Elizabeth Partridge (1994)

“Tis degrading to undertake difficult trifles; and foolish is the labour spent on puerilities.”
Turpe est difficiles habere nugas,
Et stultus labor est ineptiarum.
Turpe est difficiles habere nugas,
Et stultus labor est ineptiarum.
II, 86 (Loeb translation).
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)

“What I saw was the hoax: Immortals questioning mortality when they should have asked eternity.”
"She's Dead?"
Shades of the World (1985)

Source: General and industrial management, 1919/1949, p.xxi cited in: Harold R. Pollard (1974) Developments in management thought. p. 88

Henri Fayol (1916) cited in: Ralph Currier Davis (1951) The fundamentals of top management. p. 157. This quote was already cited in multiple sources in 1938.

During his trial, 1948.