Reality is not always probable, or likely.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTime can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Everything touches everything.
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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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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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.
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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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Death is just infinity closing in.
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Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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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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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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