Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
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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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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 sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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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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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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