"He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.

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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
More Jorge Luis Borges quotes
"There are objects made up of two sense elements, one visual, the other auditory—the colour of a sunrise and the distant call of a bird. Other objects ...
"Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or ...
"Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
"And yet, and yet… Denying temporal succession, denying the self, denying the astronomical universe, are apparent desperations and secret consolations....
"I suspected once that any human life, however intricate and full it might be, consisted in reality of one moment: the moment when a man knows for all ...