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"Labyrinths" Quotes
"Labyrinths" is a collection of short stories and essays by Jorge Luis Borges that explores themes of infinity, mirrors, labyrinths, and the nature of reality.
Quotes
Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
Every man should be capable of all ideas and I understand that in the future this will be the case.
Every writer creates his own precursors.
A labyrinth of symbols... An invisible labyrinth of time.
The world is a mask of a richer world.
It is a laborious madness and an impoverishing one, the madness of composing vast books.
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
The universe is a kind of library of Babel.
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
