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The first person singular travels all over the world, from world to world, through space and time. The first person loves and hates and seeks and kills. The first person is loved, hated, yearned for, sought for, killed... But the first person cannot be raged for. I rage not for myself but for her, and she for me, in the old silence of collusion.
Ursula Le Guin, Findings
The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be "a patriot to heaven," and I believe it is a good thing, this ambition to be cosmopolitan, this idea to be citizens not of a small parcel of the world that changes according to the currents of politics, according to the wars, to what occurs, but to feel that the whole world is our country.
Jorge Luis Borges, Homage to Victoria Ocampo
Ursula Le Guin, Findings
The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be "a patriot to heaven," and I believe it is a good thing, this ambition to be cosmopolitan, this idea to be citizens not of a small parcel of the world that changes according to the currents of politics, according to the wars, to what occurs, but to feel that the whole world is our country.
Jorge Luis Borges, Homage to Victoria Ocampo