#2,834

In unremarkable texts we soon trip on phrases that penetrate into us, as if a sword has been thrust into us up to the hilt.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 454

#2,771

Only he who suggests more than what he expresses can be reread.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 445

#2,736

The perfect transparency of a text is, with nothing more, a sufficient delight.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 440

#2,645

The book that does not scandalize the expert a little has no reason to exist.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 427

#2,640

Classical Castilian means, with a few exceptions, an unreadable book.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 426

#2,630

Contemporary man admires only hysterical texts.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 425

#2,620

A good book from yesterday does not seem bad except to the ignoramus; on the other hand, a mediocre book from today can seem good even to a cultivated man.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 423

#2,524

The “common reader” is as rare as common sense.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 406

#2,506

True reading is an escape.
The other type is an occupation.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 403

#2,421

An extensive card catalog, an imposing library, a serious university, produce today those avalanches of books that contain not one error nor one insight.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 390

#2,300

The collision with an intelligent book makes us see a thousand stars.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 373

#2,296

A single paragraph of sense is enough for us to have to attribute the text’s incoherence to our ineptness.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 372

#2,245

The most dangerous illiteracy is not that of a man who disrespects all books, but that of a man who respects them all.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 365

#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

#2,073

The true reader clings to the text he reads like a shipwrecked man to a floating plank.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 336

#1,980

A reactionary author’s readers never know whether they should clap enthusiastically or boo furiously.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 322

#1,958

The books from which we would not like to part tend to be those which we refused to approach.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 319

#1,955

The palate is the only suitable laboratory for the analysis of texts.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 319

#1,909

Admiring only mediocre works, or reading only masterpieces, characterize the uncultivated reader.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 312

#1,847

In every age there are two types of readers: the curious reader in search of novelties and the aficionado of literature.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 303