The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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.
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A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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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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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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