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“I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.”
― David Bowie

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“My library is an archive of longings.”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

“What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?”
― Umberto Eco, Baudolino

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything