Everything touches everything.
JORGE LUIS BORGESMany of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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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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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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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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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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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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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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In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
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Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
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Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
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