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 BORGESThus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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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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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
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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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I have always come to life after coming to books.
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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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I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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