Each thing implies the universe.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTo arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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