Quotes About Perspective

I've always thought that there are no couples in love nor any love triangles, only an Indian file where you love the person in front of you and that person in turn loves the one in front of him, and so on, and where the one behind me loves me and that one is loved by the one behind him and so on, but always loving the one whose back is turned to us. And the last one in line isn't loved by anyone

When you reach my age, you realize you couldn't have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.

We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.

A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships

It only takes two facing mirrors to build a labyrinth.

It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.

He measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.

We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.

In the critic's vocabulary, the word precursor is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future. -- Essay: Kafka and his Precursors

Fácilmente aceptamos la realidad, acaso porque intuimos que nada es Real

It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.

To see a thing one has to comprehend it. An armchair presupposes the human body, its joints and limbs; a pair of scissors, the act of cutting. What can be said of a lamp or a car? The savage cannot comprehend the missionary's Bible; the passenger does not see the same rigging as the sailors. If we really saw the world, maybe we would understand it.

All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them.

Quienes dicen que el arte no debe propagar doctrinas suelen referirse a doctrinas contrarias a las suyas.

His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further.

The European and the North American consider that a book that has been awarded any kind of prize must be good; the Argentine allows for the possibility that the book might not be bad, despite the prize.

I cannot lament the loss of a love or a friendship without meditating that one loses only what one really never had.

In art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions.

Historical truth, for him, is not what has happened; it is what we judge to have happened.

Uno no es lo que es por lo que escribe, sino por lo que ha leído.

The fact is that every author creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

Why a should a dream be any less real than this table. Or Macbeth be less real than today's newspaper.

La ceguera gradual no es cosa trágica. Es como un lento atardecer de verano.

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.