46 quotes found
“Darkness promotes speech.”
“But a reader's ambition knows no bounds.”
“Unpacking books is a revelatory activity.”
“Unpacking books is a revelatory activity. ”
“During the day, the library is a realm of order.”
“In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long.”
“If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity. ”
“I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.”
“If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to rejoice in the world's essential, joyful muddle. ”
“The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.”
“Saint John, in a moment of confusion, tells us not to love the world because "all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life,is not of the Father, ...”
“We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues. ”
“In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories. ”
“Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.”
“Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.”
“In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian. ”
“My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices.”
“Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.”
“If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.”
“But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence. ”
“Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive -- is now condescendingly accepted as a past...”
“Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers. ”
“Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine.”
