May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
JORGE LUIS BORGESA poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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Everything touches everything.
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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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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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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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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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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
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