Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIt 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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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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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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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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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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