11 quotes
Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.
Discussion (1932)
It is venturesome to think that a coordination of words (philosophies are nothing more than that) can resemble the universe very much.
Discussion (1932)
Life and death have been lacking in my life.
Discussion (1932)
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
Discussion (1932)
Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.
Discussion (1932)
There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.
Discussion (1932)
The central problem of novel-writing is causality.
Discussion (1932)
He transforms all concepts into incommunicable, solidified objects. To refute him is to become contaminated with unreality.
Discussion (1932)
The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to construct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the others like a Platonic archetype, an object whose virtues are not diminished by the passage of time.
Discussion (1932)
We (the indivisible divinity that works in us) have dreamed the world. We have dreamed it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in space and firm in time, but we have allowed slight, and eternal, bits of the irrational to form part of its architecture so as to know that it is false.
Discussion (1932)
It is known that Whistler when asked how long it took him to paint one of his "nocturnes" answered: "All of my life." With the same rigor he could have said that all of the centuries that preceded the moment when he painted were necessary. From that correct application of the law of causality it follows that the slightest event presupposes the inconceivable universe and, conversely, that the universe needs even the slightest of events.
Discussion (1932)