Time can't be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.

My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.

How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?

The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part of the authorities to act slowly and impersonally, in the manner of planets or vegetables.

The people of Tlön are taught that the act of counting modifies the amount counted, turning indefinites into definites. The fact that several persons counting the same quantity come to the same result is for the psychologists of Tlön an example of the association of ideas or of memorization.

I think most people are more important than their opinions.

Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels.