The Book of Sand

Quotes

• I, who once imagined paradise under the form of a library, now imagine it as a kind of hell.
• A book is an object, and an object can be burned or lost; but the Book of Sand has neither end nor beginning.
• I realized that the book was infinite. No one could ever read it in its entirety.
• I felt that I possessed something monstrous, something that did not belong to the world of men.
• I closed the book and felt it watching me, as if waiting for something.