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“Let heaven exist, though my own place be in hell. Let me be tortured and battered and annihilated, but let there be one instant, one creature, wherein thy enormous Library may find its justification.”
― The Library of Babel
― The Library of Babel
“The Library is a sphere whose exact centre is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible.”
― The Library of Babel
― The Library of Babel
“The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.”
― A Feast for Crows
― A Feast for Crows
“I cannot combine some characters
dhcmrlchtdj
which the divine Library has not foreseen and which in one of its secret tongues do not contain a terrible meaning. No one can articulate a syllable which is not filled with tenderness and fear, which is not, in one of these languages, the powerful name of a god. To speak is to fall into tautology.”
― The Library of Babel
dhcmrlchtdj
which the divine Library has not foreseen and which in one of its secret tongues do not contain a terrible meaning. No one can articulate a syllable which is not filled with tenderness and fear, which is not, in one of these languages, the powerful name of a god. To speak is to fall into tautology.”
― The Library of Babel
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