I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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Everything touches everything.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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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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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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There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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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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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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