think about the concept of a library. that’s one thing that humanity didn’t fuck up. we did a good thing when we made libraries
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Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.
Stephen King (via observando)
His mind was a library and I wanted to read all the books
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I had always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.
Jorge Luis Borges (via victoriousvocabulary)
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde (via pantheonbooks)
They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?
The Collected Works of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin (via stillmeaningless)
Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.
Alberto Manguel, A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader’s Reflections on a Year of Books (via abookblog)
