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Time Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges
- Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a…
- Any time something is written against me, I not only share the sentiment but feel I could do the job far better myself. Perhaps I…
- We (the indivisible divinity that works in us) have dreamed the world . We have dreamed it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in space and firm…
- This web of time--the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect or ignore eachother through the centuries--embrace every posibility.
- There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances and changes, the…
- Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.
- I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future . . . I felt…
- If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
- Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
- The steps a man takes from the day of his birth until that of his death trace in time an inconcievable figure. The Divine Mind…
- Time is the substance of which we are made
- A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships,…
- Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told us something that…
- I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
- You can't measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is…
- Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
- We did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I don't think anything…
- Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
- His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further.
- Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or…
- The web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect, or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces "every" possibility.…
- Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order,…
- I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions,…
- 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…
- Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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- I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time. — J. J. Abrams
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- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
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