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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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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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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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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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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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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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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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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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