Jorge Luis Borges

The library of Babel

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“Man, the imperfect librarian, may be the product of chance or of malevolent demiurgi; the universe, with its elegant endowment of shelves, of enigmatical volumes, of inexhaustible stairways for the traveler and latrines for the seated librarian, can only be the work of a god.”

“The methodical task of writing distracts me from the present state of man. The certitude that everything has been written negates us, it turns us into phantoms. I know of districts in which the young men prostrate themselves before books and kiss their pages in a barbarous manner, but they do not know how to decipher a single letter.”

Eden

There is no syllable one can speak that is not filled with tenderness and terror 

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