“I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?” ThinkingMaySometimesDreamBodyWonderImpossibleImpossibility Book:Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations Source: Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations
“A millennial belief in a Holy God may have the effect of deepening the soul, but it is also obviously archaic, and modern influences would presently bring me up to date and reveal how antiquated my origins were. To turn away from those origins, however, has always seemed to me an utter impossibility. It would be a treason to my first consciousness to un-Jew myself.” FirstsMaySoulWould BeTurnsBeliefConsciousnessInfluenceModernEffectsHolyJewImpossibilityTreasonMillennialsUp To DateHoly God Book:There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction Source: There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction