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“I carried out my plan because I felt The Chief had some fear of those of my race, of those uncountable forebears whose culmination lies in me. I wished to prove to him that a yellow man could save his armies.”
― The Garden of Forking Paths
― The Garden of Forking Paths
“Differing from Newton and Schopenhauer, your ancestor did not think of time as absolute and uniform. He believed it an infinite series of times, in a dizzily growing, ever spreading network of diverging, converging and parallel times.”
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“It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death.”
― The Garden of Forking Paths
― The Garden of Forking Paths
“I kept asking myself how a book could be infinite. I could not imagine any other than a cyclic volume, circular. A volume whose last page would be the same as the first and so have the possibility of continuing indefinitely.”
― The Garden of Forking Paths
― The Garden of Forking Paths
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