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 BORGESI foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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I have committed the worst of sins one can commit. I have not been happy.
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The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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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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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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