Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
JORGE LUIS BORGESDeath is just infinity closing in.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but hypotheses may not.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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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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There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
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One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
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