A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
JORGE LUIS BORGESA system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTo fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
JORGE LUIS BORGESDeath is just infinity closing in.
JORGE LUIS BORGESBeyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
JORGE LUIS BORGESDo you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI 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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTime, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
JORGE LUIS BORGESFrom my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
JORGE LUIS BORGESEvery man should be capable of all ideas.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIn my next life I will try to commit more errors.
JORGE LUIS BORGESPerhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
JORGE LUIS BORGESAnother school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.
JORGE LUIS BORGES