I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.

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.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library.

Best thing to happen for a poet. A fine death, no? An impressive death.

In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.