Quotes About Legacy

The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.

New Orleans is not in the grip of a neurosis of a denied past; it passes out memories generously like a great lord; it doesn't have to pursue the real thing.

I don't believe one writes for oneself. I think that writing is an act of love- you write in order to give something to someone else. To communicate something. to have other people share your feelings. This problem of how long your work survives is fundamental for a novelist or a poet. One hopes for a sense of continuity.

El autor debería morirse después de haber escrito su obra. Para allanarle el camino al texto.

Es inútil, ya no tenemos la sabiduría de los antiguos, ¡se acabó la época de los gigantes! -Somos enanos -admitió Guillermo-, pero enanos subidos a los hombros de aquellos gigantes, y, aunque pequeños, a veces logramos ver más allá de su horizonte.

Agora selo o que não devia ser dito,no túmulo em que me torno.

Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus. -Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.

We like lists because we don't want to die.

as Boethius says, nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn; and what would be the point of saying today that the abbot Abo had a stern eye and pale cheeks, when by now he and those around him are dust and their bodies have the mortal grayness of dust (only their souls, God grant, shining with a light that will never be extinguished)?

All I know about the Jews is what my grandfather taught me. They are the most godless people, he used to say. They start off from the idea that good must happen here, not beyond the grave. Therefore, they work only for the conquest of this world.

Chi legge avrà vissuto 5000 anni. Perché la letteratura è un'immortalità all'indietro

Only the librarian has received the secret, from the librarian who preceded him, and he communicates it, while still alive, to the assistant librarian, so that death will not take him by surprise and rob the community of that knowledge.

qué influencia tuvieron Gemma sobre Dante o Helena sobre Descartes, por no hablar de las muchísimas esposas que la historia ignora? ¿Y si todas las obras de Aristóteles en realidad las hubiera escrito su esposa Erpilis? Nunca lo sabremos. La historia, escrita por los maridos, ha condenado a las esposas al anonimato.

Es inútil, ya no tenemos la sabiduría de los antiguos, ¡se acabó la época de los gigantes! —Somos enanos —admitió Guillermo—, pero enanos subidos sobre los hombros de aquellos gigantes y, aunque pequeños, a veces logramos ver más allá de su horizonte.

Est ubi gloria nunc Babyloniae?

Today, whether we are doing algebra or playing with the computer, we are, in effect, benefitting from some inheritance of the quest for a perfect language. For a Polyglot Federation

El miedo a morir infunde aliento a los recuerdos.

Cartea este o asigurare de viata, un mic avans de nemurire.

Parten del concepto de que el bien debe realizarse aquí, y no más allá de la tumba. Por lo cual, obran sólo para la conquista de este mundo.

Yazar, yazd?ktan sonra ölmelidir. Metnin gidiÅŸini bozmamak için.

Ksi??ka to ubezpieczenie na ?ycie, male?ka antycypacja nie?miertelno?ci.

In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.

We make lists because we don't want to die

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of their history, like an ancestral portrait.