A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTime is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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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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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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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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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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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 I have visited.
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