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Labyrinths
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Borges is skeptical as few have ever been about the ultimate value of mere ideas and mere literature. But he has striven to turn this skepticism into an ironic method, to make of disbelief an aesthetic system, in which what matters most is
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“I am pleased with defeat because it has occurred, because it is irrevocably united to all those events which are, which were, and which will be, because to censure or to deplore a single real occurrence is to blaspheme the universe.”
― Labyrinths
― Labyrinths
“The Word, when it was made flesh, passed from ubiquity to space, from eternity to history, from limitless satisfaction to change and death;”
― Labyrinths
― Labyrinths
“I reflected that there is nothing less material than money, since any coin whatsoever (let us say a coin worth twenty centavos) is, strictly speaking, a repertory of possible futures.”
― Labyrinths
― Labyrinths
“When the end draws near, there no longer remain any remembered images; only words remain.”
― Labyrinths
― Labyrinths
“If ten thousand people die with you, their participation in your lot will not make you be ten thousand times more hungry nor multiply the time of your agony ten thousand times. Do not let yourself be overcome by the horrible sum of human sufferings; such a sum does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain are cumulative.”
― Labyrinths
― Labyrinths
Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
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