“Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.” Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges
Argentine short story writer
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo KBE was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish-language literature. Wikipedia
Born: August 24, 1899, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died: June 14, 1986, Geneva, Switzerland
Short stories: The Aleph, The Library of Babel, MORE
Awards: Miguel de Cervantes Prize, MORE

Quotes

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
The original is unfaithful to the translation.