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"I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process."
"I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection."
"La duda es uno de los nombres de la inteligencia."
"I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia."
"All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art."
"Reality is not always probable, or likely."
"Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read."
"Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms"
"No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry."
"There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music."
"The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth."
"May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell."
"I have committed the worst of sins one can commit... I have not been happy."
"Life itself is a quotation."
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
"The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory."
"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god."
"The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb."
"I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left..."
"Doubt is one of the names of intelligence."