I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses id...le details, just as our memory does.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 the fire.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the i...nfinite.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics;... I speak of the infinite.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We (the indivisible divinity that works in us) have dreamed the world. We have dreamed it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquito...us in space and firm in time, but we have allowed slight, and eternal, bits of the irrational to form part of its architecture so as to know that it is false.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[I]t is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or her is not an ...expression or a series of expressions, but literally a volume, a prism with six rectangular sides made of thin sheets of papers which should include a cover, an inside cover, an epigraph in italics, a preface, nine or ten parts with some verses at the beginning, a table of contents, an ex libris with an hourglass and a Latin phrase, a brief list of errata, some blank pages, a colophon and a publication notice: objects that are known to constitute the art of writing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: i...t is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »