From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Each thing implies the universe.
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I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
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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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The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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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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Every man should be capable of all ideas.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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