165 quotes found
“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”
“Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am th...”
“Democracy is an abuse of statistics.”
“Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.”
“Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.”
“The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.”
“Little did they suspect that the years would end by wearing away the disharmony.Little did they suspect that La Mancha and Montiel and the knight's frail figure would be, for the future, no less po...”
“Unappreciated because too many of his [Rudyard Kipling's] peers were socialists.”
“I thinkthe hero observes that nothing is so frightening as a labyrinth with no center.”
“It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allow...”
“Novels include padding; I think padding may be an essential part of the novel, for all I know.”
“What you really value is what you miss not what you have.”
“I believe the secret of the success of psychoanalysis resides in people's vanity.”
“There are objects made up of two sense elements, one visual, the other auditory—the colour of a sunrise and the distant call of a bird. Other objects are made up of many elements—the sun, the water...”
“Puis il réfléchit: la réalité ne coïncide habituellement pas avec les prévisions; avec une logique perverse, il en déduisit que prévoir un détail circonstanciel, c'est empêcher que celui-ci se réal...”
“He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.”
“I...have always known that my destiny was, above all, a literary destiny — that bad things and some good things would happen to me, but that, in the long run, all of it would be convertedinto words...”
“A writer always begins by being too complicated—he’s playing at several games at once.”
“And yet, and yet… Denying temporal succession, denying the self, denying the astronomical universe, are apparent desperations and secret consolations. Our destiny … is not frightful by being unreal...”
“One of the schools in Tlön has reached the point of denying time. It reasons that the present is undefined, that the future has no other reality than as present hope, that the past is no more than ...”
