“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.”
From volume VIII of the file · Book · 20th century
Themes: faith & God · philosophy
More from Jorge Luis Borges
“No estoy seguro de que yo exista, en realidad. Soy todos los autores que he leído, toda la gente que he conocido, todas las mujeres que he amado. Todas las ciudades que he visitado, todos mis antepasados.
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved. All the cities that I have visited, all my ancestors.”