Universal history is the history of a few metaphors.
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"Pascal’s Sphere" ["La esfera de Pascal"] (1951)
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Variant translations: Perhaps universal history is the history of the diverse intonation of some metaphors.
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It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.Jorge Luis Borges
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