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Jorge Luis Borges
“One day or one night—between my days and nights, what difference can there be?—I dreamed that there was a grain of sand on the floor of my cell. Unconcerned, I went back to sleep; I dreamed that I woke up and there were two grains of sand. Again I slept; I dreamed that now there were three. Thus the grains of sand multiplied, little by little, until they filled the cell and I was dying beneath that hemisphere of sand. I realized that I was dreaming; with a vast effort I woke myself. But waking up was useless—I was suffocated by the countless sand. Someone said to me:

You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of the grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.

I felt lost. The sand crushed my mouth, but I cried out: I cannot be killed by sand that I dream —nor is there any such thing as a dream within a dream.

— Jorge Luis Borges, The Writing of the God”
Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph and Other Stories

Paul Auster
“I tend to think that everything counts. In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose.”
Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy

Jorge Luis Borges
“The gods weave misfortunes for men, so that the generations to come will have something to sing about.” Mallarmé repeats, less beautifully, what Homer said; “tout aboutit en un livre,” everything ends up in a book. The Greeks speak of generations that will sing; Mallarmé speaks of an object, of a thing among things, a book. But the idea is the same; the idea that we are made for art, we are made for memory, we are made for poetry, or perhaps we are made for oblivion. But something remains, and that something is history or poetry, which are not essentially different.”
Jorge Luis Borges, Seven Nights

Jorge Luis Borges
“But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over.”
Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph and Other Stories

Odysseas Elytis
“Ἡ Ποίηση, ποὺ ἀπὸ τὴ φύση της δὲν ἀρκεῖται ποτὲ στὴ μία ὄψη τῶν πραγμάτων, ἔφτασε νά ΄ναι στὶς ἡμέρες μας ἡ μόνη πραγματικὰ ἐπικίνδυνη γιὰ τοὺς ἑκάστοτε κρατοῦντες. Ἐφ΄ ᾧ καὶ οἱ πιὸ ἔξυπνοι ἀπ’ αὐτοὺς τὴ βάζουν τώρα τελευταῖα νὰ φωνάζει «ἐλευθερία», ὅπως οἱ κλέφτες γιὰ νὰ τρομάξει ὁ νοικοκύρης -ὡσότου ὁ ἀφανισμός της συντελεσθεῖ.
Τριάντα αἰώνες καὶ πλέον ὁ ἄνθρωπος πασχίζει νὰ βάλει τὴ μία λέξη κοντὰ στὴν ἄλλη μὲ τέτοιον τρόπο ποὺ ἡ σκέψη νὰ ἐξαναγκάζεται νὰ παίρνει καινούργιες στροφές. Ἰδοὺ ποὺ γιὰ πρώτη φορὰ ἡ λειτουργία αὐτὴ σταμάτησε.
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