#2,794

My convictions are the same as those of an old woman praying in the corner of a church.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 448

#2,692

I have no pretensions to originality: the commonplace, if it is old, will do for me.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 434

#2,574

The only pretension I have is that of not having written a linear book, but a concentric book.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 413

#2,554

The continuous discourse tends to conceal the breaks within being.
The fragment is the expression of honest thought.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 410

#2,358

Allusion is the only way to express what is intimate without distorting it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 381

#2,351

To accuse the aphorism of expressing only part of the truth is tantamount to supposing that a verbose discourse can express all of it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 381

#2,289

The fragment is the medium of expression of one who has learned that man lives among fragments.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 371

#2,096

To understand a text, one must walk around it slowly, since no one gets in except through invisible posterns.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 339

#1,943

We who say what we think, without precaution or reticence, cannot be taken advantage of even by those who think like we do.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 317

#1,924

I distrust the system deliberately constructed by thought; I trust in the one that results from the pattern of its footprints.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 314

#1,494

I am the asylum of all the ideas displaced by modern ignominy.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 251

#1,474

What I say here will seem trivial to whoever does not know everything to which I allude.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 249

#1,044

I am not trying to poison the wells.
But to show that they are poisoned.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 186

#865

Many people believe that a laconic statement is dogmatic and judge the generosity of an intelligence by the prolixity of its prose.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 158

#498

A sentence should be hard like a rock and shake like a branch.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 97

#142

Writing would be easy if the same phrase did not appear alternately, depending on the day and the hour, mediocre and excellent.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 44

#95

He who is not aware that two opposite adjectives simultaneously qualify every object should not speak of anything.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 37

#82

Write concisely, so as to finish before making the reader sick.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 36

#59

The writer arranges for syntax to return to thought the simplicity which words take away.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 33

#43

Phrases are pebbles that the writer tosses into the reader’s soul.
The diameter of the concentric waves they displace depends on the dimensions of the pond.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 30