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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

Jorge Luis Borges

Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
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Day Different Measurement Money Time
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Conversation Death Forget Man
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Death Easy Live Religion
We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
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Acceptance Reality Thinking
I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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Date Death Imagination Known Yourself
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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Future Hope Memories Present Reality
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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Consume Fire Myself Time
What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Known Myself Person Reach
It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.
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Known Reason Simplicity Universe
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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Habit Life Lonely Worry Yourself
You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
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Death End Infinity Sleep Wake Yourself
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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Existence Happiness Word
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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Love Measurement Myself Relationship Time Yourself
To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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Immortal Invention Known Man Play Separate Way
I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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Dangerous Darkness Defeat Heart Hungry Lonely Myself
A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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Himself Life Live Lonely Need Share Writing

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