There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIf space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Another 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.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
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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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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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Everything touches everything.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
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