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Only Revolutions

by Mark Z. Danielewski (Goodreads Author)

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Oct 17, 2020 12:50PM

“The Suicide

Not a single star will be left in the night.
The night will not be left.
I will die and, with me,
the weight of the intolerable universe.
I shall erase the pyramids, the medallions,
the continents and faces.
I shall erase the accumulated past.
I shall make dust of history, dust of dust.
Now I am looking on the final sunset.
I am hearing the last bird.
I bequeath nothingness to no one.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Poems

tags: death, poetry, suicide

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“Reality is not always probable, or likely.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

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“The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

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“I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

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“Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything you do in this life would have beauty and meaning without the knowledge you carry of a final line, a border or limit.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

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