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Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings

Jorge Luis Borges · 1964

A representative selection of approximately forty stories, essays, and poems by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, showcasing his distinctive blend of philosophical inquiry, imaginative invention, and mathematical precision across themes of infinity, time, dreams, and paradox.

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What this book knows

Infinite recursion, labyrinths, and mirrors reveal that mind, identity, and God are fictions we cannot stop inhabiting.

Sex: Absent
Work: Absent
Learning: Present
Religion: Primary

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mind-and-cognition

The world is my idea: this is a truth which holds good for everything that lives and knows — Schopenhauer formulated this declaration worthy of enduring perplexity.
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Hume makes of every man 'a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity.'
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faith-and-doubt

'I am looking for God.' The librarian said: 'My fathers and the fathers of my fathers have searched for this letter; I have grown blind seeking it.'
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Judas, alone among the apostles, sensed the secret divinity and terrible intent of Jesus — the Word lowered to mortal condition demanded a sacrifice of condign nature.
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To save us, He chose the vilest destiny of all: He was Judas. Runeberg sensed in ecumenical indifference an almost miraculous confirmation.
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self-and-identity

The god revealed its earthly name was Fire, and would give life to the phantom so that all creatures except Fire and the dreamer would believe him a man of flesh and blood.
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