LOPEZ LECUBE: So you're still a committed anti-Peronist. I thought
from some of the statements you've made that you'd forgiven a little.
BORGES: Forgotten, not forgiven. Forgetting is the only form of
forgiveness, it's the only vengeance and the only punishment too.
Because if my counterpart sees that I'm still thinking about them, in
some ways I become their slave, and if I forget them I don't. I think
that forgiveness and vengeance are two words for the same substance,
which is oblivion.
-- Jorge Luis Borges. Interviewed by Gloria López Lecube, La
Isla FM Radio, Argentina, 1985, Translated by Kit Maude; in:
Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
(2013).