“What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?”
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
“Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.”
― Invisible Cities
― Invisible Cities
“If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable. What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.”
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
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“Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is an encyclopedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a series of styles, and everything can be constantly shuffled and reordered in every way conceivable.”
― Six Memos for the Next Millennium
― Six Memos for the Next Millennium
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