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“It was also possible that Villari was already dead,
and then his life was a dream. That possibility disturbed him, because he couldn't quite figure out whether it felt like a relief or a misfortune; he told himself it was absurd, and he discarded it.”
― The Aleph and Other Stories
and then his life was a dream. That possibility disturbed him, because he couldn't quite figure out whether it felt like a relief or a misfortune; he told himself it was absurd, and he discarded it.”
― The Aleph and Other Stories
“What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world?”
― The Aleph and Other Stories
― The Aleph and Other Stories
“I reflected that even in the languages of humans there is no proposition that does not imply the entire universe; to say "the jaguar" is to say all the jaguars that engendered it, the deer and turtles it has devoured, the grass that fed the deer, the earth that was mother to the grass, the sky that gave light to the earth”
― The Aleph and Other Stories
― The Aleph and Other Stories
“Money is abstract, I said over and over, money is future time.”
― The Aleph and Other Stories
― The Aleph and Other Stories
“Every year, the bright Scandinavian summer nights fade away without anyone’s noticing. One evening in August you have an errand outdoors, and all of a sudden it’s pitch-black. A great warm, dark silence surrounds the house. It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive. It has come to a standstill; nothing withers, and fall is not ready to begin. There are no stars yet, just darkness.”
― The Summer Book
― The Summer Book
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