The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThere’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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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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I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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