Borges Began

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    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 (1899–1986)

    I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as shelter.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)