The world exists to end up in a book
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"In Book VIII of the Odyssey, we read that the gods weave misfortunes so that future generations will have something to sing about; Mallarmé’s statement, “The world exists to end up in a book”, seems to repeat, some thirty centuries later, the same concept of an aesthetic justification for evils."--On the Cult of Books" (1951) by Borges |
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"Le monde existe pour aboutir à un livre" (English: The world exists to end up in a book) is a dictum by Mallarmé first recorded in the essay "Le Livre, Instrument Spirituel" (1895).
An alternative English translation is "everything in the world exists to end up in a book," which is first recorded in The Third Reich: A Study (1955).
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