A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
JORGE LUIS BORGESDeath is just infinity closing in.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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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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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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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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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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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.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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