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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESDoubt is one of the names of intelligence.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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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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Death is just infinity closing in.
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I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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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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Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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