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Jorge Luis Borges · 1962
A collection of philosophical short stories and literary fantasies by Argentine author Borges, featuring metafictional narratives that explore themes of infinity, time, identity, and the nature of knowledge through intricate labyrinths of language and imagination.
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What this book knows
Reality is a labyrinth of competing fictions—maps, mirrors, and encyclopedias that consume the minds tracing them.
mind-and-cognition
The history of the universe is the handwriting produced by a minor god in order to communicate with a demon.
FJ-RC-011'To think, analyze and invent are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence.'
FJ-RC-031The least important of his recollections was more minutely precise and lively than our perception of a physical pleasure or torment.
FJ-RC-069self-and-identity
'Time is forever dividing itself toward innumerable futures and in one of them I am your enemy.'
FJ-RC-061faith-and-doubt
The Librarian told him: God is in one of the letters on one of the pages of one of the 400,000 volumes. I've gone blind looking for it.
FJ-RC-090The Almighty is also in search of Someone, and that Someone in search of some superior Someone.
FJ-RC-022Illuminates
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