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

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Source : "The Book of Sand". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1975.

Jorge Luis Borges

#Love Quotes #Life Quotes #Time Quotes

“I get rational when I panic.”
“It seems to me, and I am personally convinced, that the Church must never speak from a position of strength. [These are shocking words.] It ought not to be one of the forces influencing this or that state. The Church ought to be, if you will, just as powerless as God himself, which does not coerce but which calls and unveils the beauty and the truth of things without imposing them. As soon as the Church begins to exercise power, it loses its most profound characteristic which is divine love [i.e.] the understanding of those it is called to save and not to smash...”
“If there are no films or plays of interest to me, I don't go. I know how to go to a museum or a library or pick up a good magazine or I can watch the sun set. I know how to live. There's a whole creation out there full of magic and wonder to be explored.”
“Аrt movements are always linked to some kind of turmoil.”

Source : "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now—And It’s Amazing". Interview With Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.
“I work because I think that I wouldn't feel good about myself unless I was contributing.”
“On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.”
“I have a theory, too, that the best and only answer to a smear or to an honest misunderstanding of the facts is to tell the truth”
“So it's happened, I kept thinking, you're in the middle of a story exactly as you've always wanted, and it's horrible. Fear tastes quite different when you're not just reading about it, Meggie, and playing hero wasn't half as much fun as I'd expected.”

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