Reality favors symmetry.
JORGE LUIS BORGESChang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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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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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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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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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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