In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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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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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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