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

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.

Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.

Life itself is a quotation.

Death is just infinity closing in.

We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.

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.