“What one man does is something done, in some measure, by all men.”

— Jorge Luis Borges, book Ficciones

"The Form of the Sword"
Ficciones (1944)
Context: What one man does is something done, in some measure, by all men. For that reason a disobedience committed in a garden contaminates the human race; for that reason it is not unjust that the crucifixion of a single Jew suffices to save it.

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Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator… 1899–1986

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