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 BORGESFor me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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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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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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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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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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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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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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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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