His many years had reduced and polished him the way water smooths and polishes a stone or generations of men polish a proverb. - Jorge Luis Borges

Nowadays, one of the churches of Tlön maintains platonically that such and such a pain, such and such a greenish-yellow colour, such and such a temperature, such and such a sound, etc., make up the only reality there is. All men, in the climactic instant of coitus, are the same man. All men who repeat one line of Shakespeare are William Shakespeare.

He sospechado alguna vez que la única cosa sin misterio es la felicidad, porque se justifica por sí sola.

Man's memory shapes
Its own Eden within