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.
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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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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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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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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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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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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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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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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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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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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