I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
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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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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
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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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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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Reality favors symmetry.
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The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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