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“There is no moral or intellectual merit whatsoever in reading only what we agree with. The only real virtue is in reading what we do not agree with.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

Borges: A Reader

Borges' argument that the real intellectual virtue is engaging with ideas that challenge us.

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