Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
JORGE LUIS BORGES
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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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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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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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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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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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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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 cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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