Universe Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges

17 Universe quotes by Jorge Luis Borges

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Jorge Luis Borges treats the universe like a grand library of possibilities. In 17 quotes, he folds paradox, myth, and philosophy into a compact tapestry that feels both mysterious and meticulously crafted.

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Each thing implies the universe.

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“The Library is a sphere whose exact centre is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible.”

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“The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.”

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There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.

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Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.

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The universe is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.

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We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.

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A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.

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A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love.…

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The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend…

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Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to…

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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…

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This felicitous supposition declared that there is only one Individual, and that this indivisible Individual is every one of the separate beings…

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I have tried (I am not sure how successfully) to write plain tales. I dare not say they are simple; there is…

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There is no exercise of the intellect which is not, in the final analysis, useless. A philosophical doctrine begins as a plausible…

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“He intentado, no se con que fortuna, la redacción de cuentos directos. No me atrevo a afirmar que son sencillos; no hay…

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Not a single star will be left in the night. The night will not be left. I will die and, with me,…

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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.

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“My memory, sir, is like a garbage disposal.”

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When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don't have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes,…

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The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.

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Every man should be capable of all ideas.

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Writing is only a guided dream.

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