7 quotes
Myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.
Dreamtigers (1960)
I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.
Dreamtigers (1960)
Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.
Discussion (1932)
The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries, with vast air shafts between, surrounded by very low railings.
Reading … is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
Universal History of Infamy [Historia universal de la infamia (1935)
Let heaven exist, though my own place may 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.
That history should have imitated history was already sufficiently marvellous; that history should imitate literature is inconceivable....
Ficciones (1944)