For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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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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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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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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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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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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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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Life itself is a quotation.
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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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Each thing implies the universe.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Israelites, 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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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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