A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
JORGE LUIS BORGESMay Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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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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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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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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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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