As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.
Jorge Luis BorgesI think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
Jorge Luis BorgesCaptivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels.
Jorge Luis BorgesTwo aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a copy of the environment's objectivity or the individual's psychic history. Guided by the latter, art is redeemed, makes the world into its instrument, and forges, beyond spatial and temporal prisons, a personal vision.
Jorge Luis Borges