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

 

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.


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This quote is just one of 14 total Jorge Luis Borges quotes in our collection. Jorge Luis Borges is known for saying '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.

My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.

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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

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Life itself is a quotation.

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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

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