“
The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
”
― Marginalia
― Marginalia
“
There are official searchers, inquisitors. I have seen them in the performance of their function: they always arrive extremely tired from their journeys; they speak of a broken stairway which almost killed them; they talk with the librarian of galleries and stairs; sometimes they pick up the nearest volume and leaf through it, looking for infamous words. Obviously, no one expects to discover anything.
”
― The Library of Babel
― The Library of Babel
