As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.
Jorge Luis BorgesI am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death?
Jorge Luis BorgesI...have always known that my destiny was, above all, a literary destiny — that bad things and some good things would happen to me, but that, in the long run, all of it would be converted into words. Particularly the bad things, since happiness does not need to be transformed: happiness is its own end.
Jorge Luis Borges