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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.

Jorge Luis Borges

The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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Expectation Himself Love
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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Art Oral Poetry Remember Writing
Reality favors symmetry.
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Reality Symmetry
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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Book Disappear Diversity History Man Myself
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
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Man Myself See Soldier
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Book Known Stand Writing
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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Creation Eyes Human Listening World
You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.
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Day Different Measurement Money Time
Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Breathe Hungry Universe
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Astonishment Myself Wake Up Worst
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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Book Perspective Relationship
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Lazy Poet Work Writing
What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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Death Form Fragile Lose World
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Literature Patience Power Time
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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Habit Life Lonely Worry Yourself
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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Commitment Happiness Myself Sin Worst

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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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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