Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
JORGE LUIS BORGESFor me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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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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A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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