What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.

Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.

What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?

There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her.

He constructed a vast labyrinthine of periods, made impassable by the piling-up of clauses upon clauses-clauses in which oversight and bad grammar seemed manifestations of disdain.

My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.

On those remote pages [of 'a certain Chinese encyclopedia'] it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f ) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, (h) those that are included in this classification, (i) those that tremble as if they were mad, (j) innumerable ones, (k) those drawn with a very fine camel's hair brush, (l) others, (m) those that have just broken a flower vase, (n) those that resemble flies from a distance.