Eli

“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Translation is not a matter of words only; it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.”
― Anthony Burgess

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi