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Stand on Zanzibar (1968)
“We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.”
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Jorge Luis Borges 213
Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator… 1899–1986Related quotes

On wanting to legitimize her relationship (as quoted in “Gay rights icon Edie Windsor’s sheer force carries ‘A Wild and Precious Life’” https://www.tampabay.com/arts-entertainment/arts/books/2019/10/08/gay-rights-icon-edie-windsors-sheer-force-carries-a-wild-and-precious-life/) (Tampa Bay; 2019 Oct 8)

“God is the only reality, and we are real only so far as we are in His order, and He is in us.”
Magna Moralia XXII, p. 172.
The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (1895)

Draft of letter to Richard Sassoon (December 1955), quoted in Joyce Carol Oates, "Raising Lady Lazarus," The New York Times (2000-11-05) http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/11/05/reviews/001105.05oatest.html
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)
Variant: Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

Commentary on the Song of Songs, As translated by Margaret M. Mitchell in Paul, the Corinthians and the Birth of Christian Hermeneutics (2010)
On the impact that poetry has had on his life in “Deaf poetics: Conversation with Raymond Antrobus" https://poetryinternationalonline.com/conversation-with-raymond-antrobus/ (Poetry International; 2018 Oct 11)

Source: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961), p. 37.