“But perhaps a person only has two real residences: the childhood home and the grave.”
― Sidewalks
― Sidewalks
“making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact,”
― The Sound and the Fury
― The Sound and the Fury
“There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.”
― Ficciones
― Ficciones
“So, I begin each day with a gesture of cynicism, and close it with a gesture of faith; or, if you prefer, begin it by reminding myself that, for me at least, goals and objectives are without value, and close it by demonstrating that the fact is irrelevant. A gesture of temporality, a gesture of eternity. It is in the tension between these two gestures that I have lived my adult life.”
― The Floating Opera
― The Floating Opera
“Upon learning to see a man becomes everything by becoming nothing. He,”
― Separate Reality: Conversations With Don Juan
― Separate Reality: Conversations With Don Juan
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