Death is just infinity closing in.
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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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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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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For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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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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There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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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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