There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her.

When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone

To bless thine enemy is a good way to satisfy thy vanity.

It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.

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.

Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.

If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his reader to believe it.