Rizowana

“He had thought on the train of sending his head to a laundry, it was true, but he had been drawn not so much to the idea of the laundered head as to that of the sleeping body. A very pleasant sleep, with head detached.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, The Sound of the Mountain

“With relief, with humiliation, with terror, he understood that he too was a mere appearance, dreamt by another.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

“My taste runs to hourglasses, maps, seventeenth-century typefaces, etymologies, the taste of coffee, and the prose of Robert Louis Stevenson.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

“He continues to teach because it provides him with a livelihood; also because it teaches him humility, brings it home to him who he is in the world. The irony does not escape him: that the one who comes to teach learns the keenest of lessons, while those who come to learn learn nothing.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace