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 BORGESPoetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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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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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Everything touches everything.
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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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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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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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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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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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