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Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

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

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Jorge Luis Borges was an Argentine writer, poet, and literary critic. His works are known for their unique fantasy and philosophical thinking, which have had a profound impact on 20th-century literature. more

“At our age the imagination across the sorry facts lifts us to make roses stand before thorns. Sure love is cruel and selfish and totally obtuse— at least, blinded by the light, young love is. But we are older, I to love and you to be loved, we have, no matter how, by our wills survived to keep the jeweled prize always at our finger tips. We will it so and so it is past all accident.”

Love Matter Facts Light Age Past Young Imagination Love Is Rose Fingers Sorry Accidents Selfish Lifts Prize Survived Thorns Young Love Blinded Sure Love

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“The world tilted slightly sideways. 'I think I need to sit down.' The floor seemed like the best option. It was close and he'd already proved that he could hit it. His legs folded.”

Thinking World Needs Legs Sideways

Book:Smoke and Shadows

Source: Smoke and Shadows

“He continues to teach because it provides him with a livelihood; also because it teaches him humility, brings it home to him who he is in the world. The irony does not escape him: that the one who comes to teach learns the keenest of lessons, while those who come to learn learn nothing.”

World Doe Home Teach Humility Lessons Irony Disgrace Livelihood

Book:Disgrâce

Source: Disgrâce

“Everyone thinks I'm crazy, you know, because I can't tell them the truth; which is, that I'm driven crazy by all these thoughts, all these heads.”

Thinking Knows I Can Crazy Driven Because I Can Bill Compton

Book:Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set

Source: Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set

“In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence isn't a thing made to man's measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn't always pass away and, from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away, and the humanists first of all, because they have taken no precautions.”

Men Mind Firsts Made Dream Taken Mere Passing Away Precaution Pestilence Bad Dream

Book:Nobel Prize Library

Source: Nobel Prize Library

“Anger does not solve anything; it builds nothing.”

Doe Anger Solve

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it”

Way Inspirational Character Shows Christian Lays Sticks Arguing Best Way Ministry Spend Time Crooked

Author:Dwight L. Moody

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