Quote #48

It is venturesome to think that a coordination of words (philosophies are nothing more than that) can resemble the universe very much. It is also venturesome to think that of all these illustrious coordinations, one of them - at least in an infinitesimal way - does not resemble the universe a bit more than the others.

More from Jorge Luis Borges

  1. He transforms all concepts into incommunicable, solidified objects. To refute him is to become contaminated with unreality.
  2. The central problem of novel-writing is causality.
  3. Hay un concepto que es el corruptor y el desatinador de los otros. No hablo del mal cuyo limitado imperio es la etica; hablo del infinito.
  4. The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful. The Greeks engendered the chimera, a monster w…
  5. We (the indivisible divinity that works in us) have dreamed the world. We have dreamed it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in spa…
  6. I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia.
  7. It is known that Whistler when asked how long it took him to paint one of his 'nocturnes' answered: 'All of my life.' With the same rigor h…
  8. One of the heresiarchs of Uqbar had stated that mirrors and copulation are abominable, since they both multiply the numbers of man.

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