Reality favors symmetry.
JORGE LUIS BORGESDo 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.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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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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Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.
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I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
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Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.
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When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Only in the present do things happen.
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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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