Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.
From Jorge Luis Borges
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.
Life and death have been lacking in my life.
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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