A Single Moment

Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
― Jorge Luis Borges

Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
― Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings

It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
― Jorge Luis Borges, Collected Fictions

A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
― Jorge Luis Borges

With relief, with humiliation, with terror, he understood that he too was a mere appearance, dreamt by another.
― Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings