It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
JORGE LUIS BORGESAnother 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn’t expect to arrive.
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The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
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I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father’s library.
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I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer – if there is any afterlife – to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
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