"The Library of Babel" Quotes
In "The Library of Babel," Jorge Luis Borges imagines an infinite library containing every possible combination of letters, exploring themes of knowledge, infinity, and the search for meaning.
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Quotes
The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.
I have just written the word 'infinite.' I have not interpolated this adjective out of rhetorical habit; I say that it is not illogical to think that the world is infinite.
The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.
The Library is a sphere whose exact center is any hexagon and whose circumference is unattainable.
I know of an uncouth region whose librarians repudiate the vain and superstitious custom of finding a meaning in books.
The library is a labyrinth of letters.
The possibility of a man’s finding his Vindication, or some treacherous variation of it, can be computed as zero.
I venture to suggest this solution to the ancient problem: The library is unlimited and cyclical.
I have just committed the first line in one of the senseless plays that the inferior deities of my days indulge in.
The universe is an indefinite and perhaps infinite sphere whose center is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible.
