If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
JORGE LUIS BORGESEvery man should be capable of all ideas.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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Everything touches everything.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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