Feb 14, 2019
“Reality is a very subjective affair. I can only define it as a kind of gradual accumulation of information; and as specialization. […] You can get nearer and nearer, so to speak, to reality; but you never get near enough because reality is an infinite succession of levels, levels of perception, of false bottoms, and hence unquenchable, unattainable. You can know more and more about one thing but you can never know everything about one thing: it’s hopeless.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, in an interview with Peter Duval Smith (1962)
