Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary...
Ljubav je imbecilna izvesnost pomoću koje naša fantazija stvara verodostojnu utvaru.
I began by making assumptions about the stories Borges chose for me -- that Kipling's prose would be stilted, Stevenson's childish, Joyce's unintelligible -- buy very soon prejudice gave way to experi...
If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity.
Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.
At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole univer...
كل مكتبة تستحضر أشباحها المظلمة الخاصة بها، فكل ترتيب ينشئ، تلقائياً، طيف مكتبة من كتب غائبة.
The starting point is a question.
Systematisches Lesen ist kaum von Nutzen. Offizielle Bücherlisten (der Klassiker, der Literaturgeschichte, der zensurierten oder empfohlenen Bücher, der Bibliothekskataloge) können per Zufall den eine...
Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive -- is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime...
Histories, chronologies and almanacs offer us the illusion of progress, even though, over and over again, we are given proof that there is no such thing.
We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books we would like to possess, even if they are well beyond our reach, because...
ليس لدي أي شعور بالذنب بشأن الكتب التي لم اقرأها وربما لن اقرأها أبداً، فأنا أعرف بأن كتبي لديها صبر لا حدود له
We can learn from its splendid ambition that what was one man's experience can become, through the alchemy of words, the experience of all, and how that experience, distilled once again into words, ca...
We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues.
Was andere als unsere Errungenschaften betrachten, ist oft nicht das, was wir selbst so sehen.
There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.
The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.
Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.
One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.