Everything touches everything.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
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It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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