Jorge Luis Borges Quotes on Future
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Every man should be capable of all ideas and I understand that in the future this will be the case.
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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to more atrocious undertakings; soon there will be no one but warriors and brigands; I give them this counsel: The author of an atrocious undertaking ought to imagine that he has already accomplished it, ought to impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
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I leave to the various futures (not to all) my garden of forking paths.
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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. In one of them I am your enemy.
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The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.