Clora

“Then Bioy Casares recalled that one of the heresiarchs of Uqbar had stated that mirrors and copulation are abominable, since they both multiply the numbers of man.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones

“There is no intellectual exercise that is not ultimately pointless. A philosophical doctrine is, at first, a plausible description of the universe; the years go by, and it is a mere chapter -- if not a paragraph or proper noun -- in the history of philosophy.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones

“The metaphysicians of Tlön are not looking for truth or even an approximation to it: they are after a kind of amazement. They consider metaphysics a branch of fantastic literature.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

“How do you expect to communicate with the ocean, when you can’t even understand one another?”
― Stanisław Lem, Solaris