It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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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Each thing implies the universe.
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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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No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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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 is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
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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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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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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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