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I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.
Roger Zelazny, Nine Princes in Amber
Read it out my friend
An old train transformed into a book shop in Auvers-sur-Oise (France) From comics and books for children, to old books (Literature, Science, History and more), this peculiar book shop must have something to tickle your curiosity! [All pictures are mine.]
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Letās do this!! #HappyWeekend
Budapest-style street bookstore š šĀ
Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
āDonāt you like books?ā
Just because youāre taught that somethingās right and everyone believes itās right, it donāt make it right.
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Quote from Stephen King.
I need to hype about this here as well because OH MY GOD!!!
IāM SO HAPPY TO BE IN THE UNIVERSITY I AM IN RIGHT NOW! Iām taking a course on book history, meaning the history of the book as an object, how books have been made, who owned them, who sold them etc. And today we had a guided tour of our universityās own library, and were given an introduction to the older and most book historically interesting pieces in the collection. And holy fucking shit. The book in the pictures. The pages are from an incunable. An incunable is a book printed in Europe before the 1500s, meaning the pages have been printed with one metal cast molded sheet stamp thing, instead of the more efficient way invented in the 1500s where youād stack these metal letters and stuff to make a page, print the page, and arrange the letters again for a new one. Those pages are from the 1400s. 600 years old. And I was allowed to touch them.
BUT THATāS NOT ALL YOU SEE THE COVER? NEWSTEAD ABBEY ONCE BELONGED TO THE BYRON FAMILY. THIS HAS BEEN IN THEIR LIBRARY. SO ITāS VERY LIKELY THAT LORD GODDAMN FUCKING BYRON MIGHT HAVE HELD THIS BOOK IN HIS HANDS.
I AM SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW
Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Isnāt it odd how much fatter a book gets when youāve read it several times? As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smellsā¦and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flowerā¦both strange and familiar.
Cornelia Funke, Inkspell (via observando)