lucy

“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.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph and Other Stories

“When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“oh the dead! she murmured, one pitied them, one brushed them aside, one had even a little contempt for them. They are at our mercy.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“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”
― Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph and Other Stories