In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future." -- Essay: "Kafka and his Precursors

Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.

We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.

Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically dessicated and preserved.

A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not.

In general, every country has the language it deserves.