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Jorge Luis Borges Quotes about Life

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

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

Jorge Luis Borges
Love, Life, Time
"The Book of Sand". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1975.

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

Jorge Luis Borges
Life, Cities, People
"Jorge Luis Borges 112th birthday marked by Google Doodle", www.telegraph.co.uk. August 24, 2011.

Life itself is a quotation.

Jorge Luis Borges
Inspirational, Life, Book
"Cool Memories". Book by Jean Baudrillard, Ch. 5, 1987.

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 tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Jorge Luis Borges
Life, Time, Fire
"Other Inquisitions". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1952.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

Jorge Luis Borges
Life, Reality, Probable Cause
"Worldwide Laws of Life : 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles". Book by John Templeton, 1998.

The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.

Jorge Luis Borges
Life, Doe, Granted
"Spinoza and Other Heretics: The Marrano of Reason" by Yirmiyahu Yovel, 1989.

Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.

Jorge Luis Borges
Life, Literature, Tolerable
"Discussion". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1932.

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