A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
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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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Everything touches everything.
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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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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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
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In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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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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