If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTime forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
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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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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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Each thing implies the universe.
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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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