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

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Useless to tell myself that a dreamand the memory of yesterday are the same thing

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

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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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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

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The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all of my instants would be p...more

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In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of the others. In the almost unfathomable Ts'ui Pen, he chooses – ...more