More from Jorge Luis Borges

  1. It is venturesome to think that a coordination of words (philosophies are nothing more than that) can resemble the universe very much. It i…
  2. The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful. The Greeks engendered the chimera, a monster w…
  3. He transforms all concepts into incommunicable, solidified objects. To refute him is to become contaminated with unreality.
  4. I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia.
  5. 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.
  6. One of the heresiarchs of Uqbar had stated that mirrors and copulation are abominable, since they both multiply the numbers of man.
  7. We (the indivisible divinity that works in us) have dreamed the world. We have dreamed it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in spa…
  8. Para uno de esos gnosticos, el visible universo era una ilusion o (mas precisamente) un sofisma. Los espejos y la paternidad son abominable…

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