Flaubert: "No era el Conocimiento lo que amaba, era su forma y expresión. Amaba un libro porque era un libro; le encantaba el olor, su aspecto, el título".
“New Year’s? Don’t the words almost smell a bit like wistfulness? When a year stops, another instantly commences, as if one were turning the page. The story keeps on going, and the beauty of a context is revealed.”
— Robert Walser, “New Year’s Page”
(trans. Susan Bernofsky)