The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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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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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
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The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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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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