A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
JORGE LUIS BORGESPoets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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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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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
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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.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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