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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIn my next life I will try to commit more errors.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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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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Reality favors symmetry.
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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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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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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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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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Life itself is a quotation.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Everything touches everything.
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