Loquacious

“It is venturesome to think that a coordination of words (philosophies are nothing more than that) can resemble the universe very much.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

“No, not death. We have chosen life eternal, the resurrection of the...'
'That is a story to tell children. The truth is that for thousands of years we looked to what was living. Now you look to what is dead, you worship a dead man and tell one another that this world is not for us, while the next is all that matters. Only there is no next world.”
― Gore Vidal

“When he was young, he told her, each phase of his life, each self he tried on, had seemed reassuringly temporary. Its imperfections didn't matter, because he could easily replace one moment by the next, one Saladin by another.”
― Salman Rushdie

“time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.”
― Italo Calvino, The Complete Cosmicomics