Only in the present do things happen.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhat you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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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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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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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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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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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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In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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