Reality is not always probable, or likely.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIt 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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