Remember, Omon, although man, of course, has no soul, every soul is a universe. That’s the dialectic.

Victor Pelevin, trans. Andrew Bromfield, Omon Ra [Bookshop, Amazon, Publisher]

Hermetic quote Pelevin Bromfield no soul soul is universe dialectic

Consider also:

  1. “Everything I remember from my childhood is linked in one way or another with a dream of the sky.”
  2. “Life always has room for heroism.” It was not just romantic nonsense but a precise and sober statement of the fact that our Soviet life is not the ultimate instance of reality but only, as it were, its anteroom.
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  4. “And remember, dying is a serious business. If a man dies with a sin on his soul, he goes to Spain.”
  5. “The supreme spirit which pervades, embraces, and penetrates everything, being the very essence, soul, and life of all things in the universe, from the atom up to the whole solar system, is beyond all mental conception.”