Nicolas Boileau
View AuthorWisdom is a tranquility of the soul that cannot be disturbed by anything and is inflamed by no desire.
Nicolas Boileau
View AuthorThe wisest is the one who, being so, is unaware of it.
Nicolas Boileau
View AuthorBefore writing, learn to think.
Jorge Luis Borges
View AuthorI always imagined that Paradise would be some kind of library.
Jorge Luis Borges
View AuthorAll theories are legitimate and none of them are important. What matters is what you do with them.
Jorge Luis Borges
View AuthorOne is not what one is because of what one writes, but because of what one has read.
Jorge Luis Borges
View AuthorLet others boast about the pages they have written; I take pride in the ones I have read.
Jorge Luis Borges
View AuthorWe are our memory, we are that chimeric museum of inconstant forms, that pile of broken mirrors.
Jorge Luis Borges
View AuthorThe Library is a sphere whose precise center is any hexagon, whose circumference is inaccessible.
Jorge Luis Borges
View AuthorLiterature is nothing more than a directed dream.
Jorge Luis Borges
View AuthorUniversal History is that of a single man.
Jorge Luis Borges
View AuthorThe verb to read, like the verb to love and the verb to dream, does not support 'the imperative mood'.