"Yo no temo a la muerte. No le temo ni me entristece. Cuando estoy triste pienso: cómo puedo estar triste si me espera esa gran aventura que es la muerte. Si tengo suerte, seré aniquilado, borrado totalmente, y si no, si hay otra vida, la aceptaré como he aceptado ésta. Peor que ésta no será. Hasta puede ser mejor. No sabemos nada, pero podemos pensar que hay una aventura más allá de la muerte".
“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.”
“Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies — for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry — I say to myself, “What a pity I can’t buy that book, for I already have a copy at home.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, This Craft of Verse.