You have wakened not out of sleep

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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 about to take is endless, 

and you will die before you have truly awakened.

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~ Jorge Luis Borges, from 'The Writing of the God'

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