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There are official searchers, inquisitors. I have seen them in the performance of their function: they always arrive extremely tired from their journeys; they speak of a broken stairway which almost killed them; they talk with the librarian of galleries and stairs; sometimes they pick up the nearest volume and leaf through it, looking for infamous words. Obviously, no one expects to discover anything.Jorge Luis Borges
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The library will endure; it is the universe. As for us, everything has not been written; we are not turning into phantoms. We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of meaning amid leagues of cacophony and incoherence, reading the history of the past and our future, collecting our thoughts and collecting the thoughts of others, and every so often glimpsing mirrors, in which we may recognize creatures of the information.Jorge Luis Borges
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I cannot combine some charactersdhcmrlchtdjwhich the divine Library has not foreseen and which in one of its secret tongues do not contain a terrible meaning. No one can articulate a syllable which is not filled with tenderness and fear, which is not, in one of these languages, the powerful name of a god. To speak is to fall into tautology.Jorge Luis Borges
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The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.Jorge Luis Borges
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The Library is a sphere whose exact centre is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible.Jorge Luis Borges
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If honor and wisdom and happiness are not for me, let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my place be in hell.Jorge Luis Borges