Jorge Luis Borges Quotes on Faith
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Que el cielo exista, aunque mi lugar sea el infierno.
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May Heaven exist, even if our place is Hell.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Do 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.
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Toward dawn, he dreamed that he was in hiding, in one of the naves of the Clementine Library. What are you looking for? a librarian wearing dark glasses asked him. I'm looking for God, Hladik replied. God, the librarian said, is in one of the letters on one of the pages of one of the four hundred thousand volumes in the Clementine. My parents and my parents' parents searched for that letter; I myself have gone blind searching for it.
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.