We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
Jorge Luis BorgesWhen writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
Jorge Luis BorgesNothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
Jorge Luis BorgesChang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
Jorge Luis Borges