Quotes About Ambiguity

I'm possibly possible.

I know that it is not necessary that there be one right thing. There may be two right things. There may be no right things.

But you know it's hard to tell When you're in the spell if it's wrong or if it's real But you're bound to lose If you let the blues get you scared to feel

I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.

We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.

I know what the Greeks do not know, incertitude.

antes de entrar en batalla, nadie sabía quién es. Alguien podía pensarse cobarde y ser un valiente, y asimismo al revés (...)

My name is someone & anyone. I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive.

I do not know which of us has written this page.

La gloria es una forma de incomprensión; quizás la peor.

soy dios, soy héroe, soy filósofo, soy demonio y soy mundo, lo cual es una fatigosa manera de decir que no soy.

I am not certain whether I ever believed in the City of the Immortals; I think the task of finding it was enough for me.

Seré todos o nadie. Seré el otro Que sin saberlo soy, el que ha mirado Ese otro sueño, mi vigilia. La juzga, Resignado y sonriente.

It's enough that if I am rich in anything, it is in perplexities rather then in certaintes.

Work that endures is always capable of an infinite and plastic ambiguity; it is all things for all men, like the Apostle; it is a mirror that reflects the reader's own features and it is also a map of the world. Moreover, all this must come about in an evanescent and modest way, almost in spite of the author, who must appear to be ignorant of any and all symbolism.

La gloria é una forma di incomprensione, forse la peggiore.

Debe tratarse de una broma de nuestro amigo, mal escuchada.

There is no human being on earth capable of declaring with certitude who he is.

Otálora no sabe si atribuir su reserva a hostilidad, a desdén o a mera barbarie.

El concepto de arte comprometido es una ingenuidad porque nadie sabe del todo lo que ejecuta. (The notion of art as a compromise is a simplification, for no one knows entirely what they are doing.)

De El Sur, que es acaso mi mejor cuento, básteme prevenir que es posible leerlo como directa narración de hechos novelescos y también de otro modo.

Work that endures is always capable of an infinite and plastic ambiguity; it is all things for all men[...]and it must be ambiguous in an evanescent and modest way, almost in spite of the author; he must appear to be ignorant of all symbolism.

One line plus one line results in many meanings.

What we regard as Evil is capable of a fairly ubiquitous presence if only because it tends to appear in the guise of good.