One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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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Life itself is a quotation.
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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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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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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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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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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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