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". You see, the direct, legitimate, immediate result of consciousness is inertia, that is the conscious sitting idly by with one’s arms folded. I’ve referred to this before. I repeat, I repeat emphatically: all spontaneous men and men of action are so active precisely because they’re stupid and limited."

"One of the schools of Tlön goes so far as to negate time; it reasons that the present is indefinite, that the future has no reality other than as a present hope, that the past has no reality other than as a present memory..." This seems to be a recurring thought in many of Borges's writing.