The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.

Jorge Luis Borges

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For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don’t.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake
A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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Expression Mention Word
I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.

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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Known
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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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.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

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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Doubt Fake
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.

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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Mindset Willing
We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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Museum
It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.

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It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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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.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

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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Visible
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.

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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Creativity End
Perhaps 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 BORGES

Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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Cheating End
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.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

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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Celebration Direct Expression

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