Those Who Do Not Learn How To

Mechanical Reproduction Emancipates The Work Of Art From Its Parasitical Dependence On Ritual.

Our Image Of Happiness Is Indissolubly Bound Up With The Image Of The Past.

Reminiscences, Even Extensive Ones, Do Not Always Amount To An Autobiography. For Autobiography Has To Do With Time, With Sequence And What Makes Up The Continuous Flow Of Life. Here, I Am Talking Of A Space, Of Moments And Discontinuities. For Even If Months And Years Appear Here, It Is In The Form They Have At The Moment Of Commemoration.

In Every Case The Storyteller Is A Man Who Has Counsel For His Readers.

We Collect Books In The Belief That We Are Preserving Them When In Fact It Is The Books That Preserve Their Collector.