Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
JORGE LUIS BORGESFrom my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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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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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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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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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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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
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