Her yerde erinç aradım, ama hiçbir yerde bulamadım, bir kitapla çekildiğim köşeden başka.
Having reached the end of my poor sinner’s life, my hair now white, I grow old as the world does, waiting to be lost in the bottomless pit of silent and deserted divinity, sharing in the light of ange...
Every text, after all, is a lazy machine asking the reader to do some of its work. What a problem it would be if a text were to say everything the receiver is to understand - it would never end.
Cuando hablo con Ubertino me da la impresión de que el infierno es el paraíso visto desde la otra parte. No
But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to enquiry(William of Baskerville)
Because if the Masters of the World exist, they can only be underground: this is a truth that all sense but few dare utter. Perhaps
At times this can be so. Often books speak of other books. Often a harmless book is like a seed that will blossom into a dangerous book, or it is the other way around: it is the sweet fruit of a bitte...
Aristotle says in the book of secrets that communicating too many arcana of nature and art breaks a celestial seal and many evils can ensue. Which does not mean that secrets must not be revealed, but...
Most of them won't have a book in the house, though, when they have to, they'll talk about the latest book that's selling millions of copies around the world. Our readers may not read books, but they...
Kaldı ki, onunla yok olup gitmeyeceksek bir kurmaca yaratmak niye?
Մենք չորս կողմից շրջապատված ենք տգիտությամբ, որը հաճախ լպիրշ է ու հավակնոտ։ Նույնիսկ նորանոր կողմնակիցներ է ձեռք բերում։ Ինքնավստահ է և իր գերիշխանությունն է ազդարարում մեր նեղմիտ քաղաքական գործիչների...
Recognize the evidence through which the world speaks to us like a great book...
Perché aveva scritto che alla stazione di Torino due treni diretti s’incrociavano: l’uno in partenza, e l’altro in arrivo. La sua descrizione pareva stolidamente ridondante. Ma, a ripensarci bene, l’a...
You too will seek your fortune, and you must be keen in obtaining it. If here you have learned to dodge a musket ball, there you must learn to elude envy, jealousy, greed, using those same weapons to...
You cannot escape one infinite, I told myself, by fleeing to another; you cannot escape the revelation of the identical by taking refuge in the illusion of the multiple.
When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.
We'll have to see, Belbo said. He rummaged in his drawer and took out some sheets of paper. Potio-section... He looked at me, saw my bewilderment. Potio-section, as everybody knows, of course, is the...
We don’t see them, but, invisible, they act all around us.
Vallet wrote of something else. Stimulated in some mysterious way by what he was saying, I made that connection myself and, and as I identified the idea with the text I was underlining, I attributed i...