The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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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In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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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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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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