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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIsraelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds, in infinite number, to be its reward or punishment.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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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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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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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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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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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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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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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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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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There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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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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No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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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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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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