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

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Ferrari: How odd, Borges, it seems that we are talking constantly through memory. Sometimes, our conversations remind me of a dialogue between two mem...more

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We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.

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The three of them knew it. She was Kafka’s mistress. Kafka had dreamt her. The three of them knew it. He was Kafka’s friend. Kafka had dreamt him. The...more

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One of the schools in Tlön has reached the point of denying time. It reasons that the present is undefined, that the future has no other reality than ...more

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Which one of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?

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A circle drawn on a blackboard, a right triangle, a rhombus--all these are forms we can fully intuit; Ireneo could do the same with the stormy mane of...more

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Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. In one of them I am your enemy.

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And so, as I sleep, some dream beguiles me, and suddenly I know I dream.Then I think: this is a dream, a pure diversion of my will; now that I have un...more

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Man's memory shapesIts own Eden within

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It was under English trees that I meditated on that lost labyrinth: I pictured it perfect and inviolate on the secret summit of a mountain; I pictured...more

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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 ...more

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We are our memory,we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes,that pile of broken mirrors.

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And yet, and yet… Denying temporal succession, denying the self, denying the astronomical universe, are apparent desperations and secret consolations....more

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One of the schools of Tlön goes so far as to negate time; it reasons that the present is indefinite, that the future has no reality other than as a pr...more