Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done.

That one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox.

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 thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.