Jorge Luis Borges Quotes about Time

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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.

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.

Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.

Jorge Luis Borges

Time, Forks

Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East Irby (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.28, New Directions Publishing

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.

Jorge Luis Borges

Time, Different, Way

Jorge Luis Borges (2005). “Brodie's Report: Including the Prose Fiction from In Praise of Darkness”, Penguin Classics