"On the burning February morning Beatriz Viterbo died, after braving an agony that never for a single moment gave way to self-pity or fear, I noticed that the sidewalk billboards around Constitution Plaza were advertising some new brand or other of American cigarettes."
Jorge Luis Borges the First Line of The Aleph and Other Stories
"What I'm out for now is peace, the enjoyment of thinking and of friendship, and, though it may be too ambitious, a sense of loving and of being loved."
Jorge Luis Borges the Last Line of in The Aleph and Other Stories
Originally Published Jan. 1, 1949
Hardcover edition:
260 pages - Jan. 1, 1970