We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
Jorge Luis BorgesIm merely a dreamer, and then a writer, and my happiest moments are when I'm a reader.
Jorge Luis BorgesIn the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and theories are nothing more than stimuli and that the final work usually ignores or even contradicts them.
Jorge Luis BorgesA book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the right reader comes along, and the wordsโor rather the poetry behind the words, for the words themselves are mere symbolsโspring to life, and we have a resurrection of the word.
Jorge Luis Borges