Borges at eighty: “I think that one should never use words like ‘the best’ or ‘the first,’ since those words carry no conviction and only lead to arguments. Beauty is not something rare. […] For example, I know nothing whatever about Hungarian poetry, and yet I am sure that [+]

Here is a memory of the word. Here we have all the poems, all the dreams, all the fictions of mankind. Well, I shall burn this library, the books will be ashes, because I know that in due time other men will rewrite the same books and nothing will really be lost.”