A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
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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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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
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When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don’t have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don’t think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.
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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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No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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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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Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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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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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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