My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out. Votes: 9
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. Votes: 7
Democracy is an abuse of statistics. Votes: 3
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships Votes: 3
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. Votes: 0
Life itself is a quotation. Votes: 0
Reading . . . is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. Votes: 0
Time is forever dividing itself toward innumerable futures and in one of them I am your enemy. Votes: 0
A necessary monster. Votes: 0
Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on meand treating me badly. Votes: 0
Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. Votes: 0
It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA. Votes: 0
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory. Votes: 0
Reality favors symmetry. Votes: 0
Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. Votes: 0
In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others. Votes: 0
The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal. Votes: 0
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful. Votes: 0
The universe is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries. Votes: 0
I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes. Votes: 0
All writing is dreaming Votes: 0
Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him. Votes: 0
Each thing implies the universe. Votes: 0
Death is just infinity closing in. Votes: 0
We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors. Votes: 0
Writing is only a guided dream. Votes: 0
Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life. Votes: 0
Everything touches everything. Votes: 0
Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men. Votes: 0
That is what always happens: we never know whether we are victors or whether we are defeated. Votes: 0
If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his reader to believe it. Votes: 0
I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also. Votes: 0