“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges
Books and Book Art ...
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Sue Blackwell
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Le Bal des Ardents bookstore: Lyon
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles William Eliot
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Shakespeare & Company bookstore: Paris
“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket
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Tyrrell Public Library Bookmobile. Texas 1930's
“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.” ― William Styron
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Edward Gorey
“Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.”
― Robertson Davies
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Lello bookstore. Porto.
“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin
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bookstore. Calcutta
“A house without books is like a room without windows.”
― Horace Mann
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Rob Gonsalves
“Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.”
― Arnold Lobel
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Chicago Library bookmobile (1950's ?)
“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman
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Paul Rumsey
“What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
― Alan Bennett
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Central Library: Helsinki
“What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul.”
― Neil Gaiman
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Edouard John Mentha
“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
― Isabel Allende
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Georgia Russell
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka
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Strahov Theological Hall: Prague
“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison
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Trintity College Library : Dublin
“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.”
― Jeanette Winterson
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Abbey Library of St Gall: Switzerland
“Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.”
― Stéphane Mallarmé
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Suzzalo Library: Seattle
“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
― Virginia Woolf
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Rolf Escher
“When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.”
― Elizabeth Kostova
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“The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”
― Ray Bradbury
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“Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.”
― James Russell Lowell
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“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin
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“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”
― Mason Cooley
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