Each thing implies the universe.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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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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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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You may win your heart’s desire, but in the end you’re cheated of it by death.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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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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I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
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It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
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Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.
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Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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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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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.
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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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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
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